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THE HUDSON BAY HATCHET. 
The New Rochelle man had invited the Can¬ 
adian up to his place in New Rochelle to enjoy 
dinner and also view the mementoes of the 
summer camping trip he had taken away up 
over the height of land, northward and west¬ 
ward, around from Ottawa to the thriving town 
of North Bay, making a grand circle through 
the streams and lakes that abound. 
One of the objects that hung on the wall of 
the den was a peculiarly shaped little hatchet, 
quite unlike the everyday article bought with 
hunting and camping outfits down here in New 
York. The Canadian gazed musingly up at it 
through the blue smoke of his cigar and asked 
the New Rochelle man how he had managed to 
get hold of it. 
“And so you got it from Pierre Lajoie, the 
guide?” repeated the Canadian. ‘I don’t know 
that one of those fellows could give you any¬ 
thing that they value much higher than those 
hatchets. They’re linked tightly with the whole 
family history of the guides. A kind of heir¬ 
loom, you know, that they’ve perhaps had for 
years and years, passing down from father to 
son. You can’t get it down off the wall, can 
you ?” 
The hatchet was much lighter than the 
hatchet a carpenter uses and had a smooth shaft 
about eleven inches, long. The blade was 
peculiar. It was quite thin and a good quality 
of steel. 
Instead of coming down from the shaft to 
the cutting edge in a dished curve like an ax 
blade, the hatchet had an outward curvature, 
and it met the cutting edge almost at a right 
angle. The swelling curve was nicked deeply 
on the handle side of the blade and there was a 
hammer head on the hatchet ^shaped like the 
head of a carpenter’s hammer, but smaller. 
“I suppose you think this is just an ordinary, 
everyday hatchet,” said the Canadian, as he 
held it near the center of the shaft and twirled 
it rapidly around in all directions, holding it be¬ 
tween thumb and first finger. “You can’t 
imagine how many uses those hatchets have in 
the Northland, and how well they are fitted for 
the territory. This is one of the famous Hud¬ 
son’s Bay Company hatchets, and you can’t get 
another like it here in New York at all. 
“No, those you see in the camping outfit cata¬ 
logues aren’t the same. In them the blade is 
too thick, the hatchet is too heavy and the 
whole thing doesn’t balance properly,” and the 
Canadian twirled the hatchet around, using only 
his wrist and forearm and a light grasp with his 
thumb and forefinger. 
“This pattern of hatchet is one of the old, 
old staples of the Hudson’s Bay Company. I 
guess they haven't changed the pattern, shape 
or weight in 150 years. There are thousands of 
them rusting in the bottoms of rapids up North. 
“Even the paint on them when new hasn’t 
changed its color from the color used during 
the American Revolution. The only difference 
is that they’re not bought with beaver skins 
nowadays, but very often are paid for in money 
at the trading posts, except in the very distant 
North. 1 here they’ve no money and no use 
for it, so they get the hatchets in exchange for 
furs.” 
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The hatchet was deeply pitted with rust, but 
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