MR. GLADIEUX'S FARM. 



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placed at my disposal during the remaining period of my 

 stay at Eed Eiver. He remarked that on the morrow he 

 was going to the plains to hunt buffalo, and should not 

 require the carriage for several weeks after my proposed 

 departure. I requested the guide to ask what I had to 

 pay for the entertainment of the party. The polite 

 answer returned was as follows : " Nothing ; it is not the 

 custom of the people of this country to charge strangers 

 who may honour them with a visit." 



Mr. Gladieux is a French " native," he resides on the 

 right bank of the Eed Eiver, five miles south of Fort Garry. 

 He showed me his farmyard, barns, garden and cattle. 



The Red River at Pierre Grladieux's. 



Four pea stacks, several wheat stacks, and five or six hay 

 stacks, all of fair dimensions, were neatly arranged in the 

 stack yard, while the cattle yard was tenanted by a num- 

 ber of cows, pigs, horses, and poultry. His peas were 

 sown on the 7th May, and reaped on the 25th September. 

 Before Mr. Gladieux's house, the trunk of an immense hard 

 lay ready for splitting into firewood ; the size appeared to 

 be so unusual that I measured it carefully, and found it to 



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