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effect the current of ht that they had so them to present uses The

; and chief a likewise to say a ith respect to the book known as "The

Story of Louis Riel" That voluely fiction There is no historic truth in the story therein

written by irl named Marie; and that he put Thoave her heart to that young white ain as truth; but there is in it not one word of

truth This lad to be able to say in justice to the memory

of the miserable ressions I never intended that the work in question should be

taken as history; and I should haveto take

responsibility for the literary slovenliness, which was unavoidable

through h Mr D A Rose's hurry in

publishing, the work It occupied me only seventeen days; and I did

not seecharacters in that book, Mr Charles

Mair, is ents

in the rebellion of 1869; but nothing could be further from the fact

His pen and his voice had always advocated justice and generosity

towards the Indians and the Metis As to his senti

the Indians, I need but refer to the drama of his "Tecumseh," which

Canadians have received with such enthusiasm