284 THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES 



Later, as we passed the American who lives at Fort 

 McMurray, Jiarobia said to me: "Dat man is the 

 biggest awful liar on de river. You should hear him 

 talk. 'One day/ he said, 'dere was a big stone floating 

 up de muddy river and on it was tree men, and one 

 was blind and one was plumb naked and one had no 

 arms nor legs, and de blind man he looks down on 

 bottom of river an see a gold watch, an de cripple he 

 reach out and get it, and de naked man he put it in 

 his pocket.' Now any man talk dat way he one most 

 awful liar, it is not possible, any part, no how." 



