BULLETS AND THEIE BILLETS 



Comeau speaks French and English 

 with a copious vocabulary, and no trace 

 of accent, a much rarer acquirement 

 than is generally supposed. He knows 

 several dialects of Indian, has shot 

 everything on four legs from the 

 Rockies to Ungava, is an expert tele- 

 grapher, and the only doctor and mid- 

 wife in a great stretch of country on the 

 North Shore. It may be interesting to 

 record that his idea of the finest and 

 most dangerous sport that our continent 

 affords, is the harpooning of horse- 

 mackerel from an open boat, and few 

 have so wide and varied an experience 

 upon which to base an opinion. He and 

 two others, a great doctor and a great 

 lawyer, wonder-workers all three by 

 the standard of common men, have the 

 same dreamy brown eyes, that effort- 

 lessly, with an effect of laziness, seem to 

 penetrate what arrests the ordinary 

 vision, and concern themselves with the 

 sub-obvious. 



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