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"I didn't pay no notice to my leg until it 

 began to go bad, den I take it to de English 

 Church to Bishop Bompas. He tole me de 

 leg must come off and ax me to get a letter 

 from de priest (I'm Cat-o-lic, me) telling it 

 was all right to cut him. I get de letter and 

 bring my leg to Bompas. He cut 'im off wid 

 meat-saw. No, I tak not'in', me. I chew 

 tobacco and tak' one big drink of Pain-killer. 

 Yes, it hurt w'en he strike de marrow." 



"Heavens, didn't you faint with the awful 

 pain?" 



"What — faint — me? No. I say, get me 

 my fire bag — I want to have a smoke." 



It will be seen by the above narrative that 

 the Bishop was careful not to antagonize the 

 missionaries of the Roman Catholic church, as 

 he always worked in harmony with them as 

 they did with him. 



Around White Horse the store-keepers and 

 other business men have a fund of stories to 

 tell about him. When his race was about run 

 some one in England left him a legacy of 

 170,000 pounds — nearly a million dollars. I 

 am told that he expended the most of it in 

 bettering the condition of the Indians. After 

 his death, when his will was opened, he had 

 left instructions that he was to be buried in 



