LE LONG DU SENTIER 



process of education is going forward, 

 and it is coming to be understood that 

 even game laws are framed for the good 

 of the people, and impose an obligation. 



Your habitant will bargain shrewdly 

 for his own or his horse 's services. Most 

 cheerfully will he ask you double what 

 they are worth ; but, the bargain struck, 

 he will abide by it. Our plan of making 

 an easy agreement, and doing the other 

 party in the performance of it, seems 

 to him dishonourable; which shows, of 

 course, how hopelessly the moral sense 

 may be warped. 



An old carter, to whom ten dollars 

 was a very great sum, once handed me 

 a bill which he had found when renew- 

 ing the balsam couch for a gentleman 

 whom he had taken fishing. He knew 

 that we had visited the lake a week be- 

 fore, and though nothing had been said 

 about the loss, thought that the money 

 might belong to some member of our 

 party. I doubt that the idea of keeping 



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