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On the front seat of the lead wagon sat stout Molly Wingate and her

husband Little Molly's cart caon,

wherein now sat on the seat--hugging a sore-footed dog whose rawhide

boots had worn through--a long-legged, barefoot girl who had walked

twelve hundred rown fro s now, for any driver aunt and hollow-eyed Tobacco protuberant in cheek, his feet

half bare, his trousers ragged and fringed to the knee, his sleeves

rolled up over brown and brawny arate noas enrolled on

the list ofthere, damn ye!" So rose his

voice, automatically but affectionately

Certain French Canadians, old-tiés of the fur posts, now

become habitants, landowners, on their way home from Sunday chapel,

hastened to summon others

"The families have come!" they called at the Falls, as they had at

Portland town

But now, though safely enlarged at last of the confinerants, reat means, needed to cast about them at

once for their locations and to determine what their occupations were to

be They scattered, each seeking his place, like new trout in a stream