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backward or sideway into danger, until it reaches 

 the sun-kissed summit where scarlet lilies first grew 

 out of camp-fires in June time for love of those 

 dark-eyed Indian babies, the echo of whose beauty 

 still lingers in the flesh and the spirit about their 

 homeland by the lovely lakes of Qu'Appelle. 



Just across the lake in the height of a hill is planted 

 the cross which marks the end of the Mission Trail, 

 and beneath, in its shadow, is the great Industrial 

 School for Indian boys and girls, the organization of 

 which has been the life-work of one Father Hugenard, 

 a French priest and one of the most useful members 

 of the British Empire. 



The village of Le Bret is built on the choicest 

 site on the sunny or northern side of the eastern 

 lake of Fort Qu'Appelle. Constructive genius is in 

 evidence not only in every detail of the building 

 and work of the industrial schools, but throughout 

 the village. The schools are built on the lake shore 

 at the west end of the village, and occupy very much 

 the same site and general position as the Hotel 

 Bristol in Beaulieu on the Mediterranean. The 

 garden shore curves out into the lake ; one steps 

 from a bed of brilliant poppies, across a stile, to the 

 slim beach on which the delicate waves of the lake 

 lap and gurgle. In summer-time the garden is a 

 mass of bloom. Pale pink petunias, rose-coloured 

 creeping geranium, sweet pea in profusion and a 

 regiment of sweet william in uniform of glorious 

 tint lend that delicious rosy glow of the morning 

 to this charming lake-garden. Beyond is a neat and 

 luxuriant bed of strawberries, then tomatoes, rhu- 

 barb, lettuce, carrots, onions, cucumbers, gourds of 

 all species, monster cabbages and cauliflowers literally 



