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firewood to last for several days. It was 

 a good joke. Nothing appeals to an In- 

 dian's sense of the ludicrous like the idea 

 of laying up anything in advance. He 

 tries to imitate Caribou Charley and me 

 in some things, and I do not dare to leave 

 my tooth-brush out or he surely would try 

 it. He still prefers to lean over the river 

 Narcissus-like when parting his hair in 

 the morning instead of using our more 

 civilized mirror, which is made by sinking 

 a rubber coat-tail in a pan of water. 



Every year in July Jo-mul comes down 

 to the coast and disposes of his canoe load 

 of furs to some trader. A fine black mink 

 skin is worth two dollars, so for that the 

 trader gives him a five-cent pipe on which 

 he has placed the value of two dollars. 

 His skins of beaver, otter, fox, marten, 

 lynx, fisher, wolverine, and bear are traded 

 off for pickles, Florida water, gunpowder, 

 tobacco, and the simplest necessaries in 

 the way of clothing and provisions, but 

 usually to pay the last year's debt ; and 

 the things that he wants are advanced to 

 him, for he is known as an honest Indian, 



