BULLETS AND THEIR BILLETS 



jected vast quantities of dust into the 

 atmosphere, but the effects of this were 

 very plain to senses almost as alert and 

 keen as those of the creatures they pur- 

 sue. 



The attitude of modern science is not 

 to dismiss things as incredible, but to 

 hold judgment in reserve, awaiting 

 proof and the examination of evidence. 

 Were it not so, I would scarcely dare to 

 drag within the four corners of a dis- 

 cursive paper this Indian camp-fire 

 story. 



The narrator is a man of the highest 

 integrity and truthfulness, moreover, 

 like Comeau, he is a careful and accur- 

 ate observer. However you may explain 

 the incident, the character of the man 

 compels one to put aside the theory of 

 intentional falsification. In the years 

 of his strenuous youth Bastien was 

 chosen to accompany a party engaged 

 upon government survey duty in the 

 Labrador peninsula. The summer's 



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