vitement, provincial for 7'itc

3. y en a des fois ici qui s'y noient, for il y en a qui s'' y noient ici parfois.

4. Mon cheval . . . que je n'aurais pas, etc., // my Jwrse had spoken to me, etc.

5. There has been a good deal of spéculation as to why the vvord bois-brûlé is used in Canadian French to dénote a half-breed, but Rev. Thomas Nahbenyash, an Indian friend of the author, clears the matter up. The term is only a translation of the Indian expression, We-sa/i-ko-da-we-ne-ne-wii(^, literally, "man (or men) of the burnt woods or plains." According to Indian tradition the name was first given to the mixed-bloods who were the product of early French colonization in the time of Sieur DuLuth at the western end of Lake Superior on the edge 01 the great plains in Minnesota.

Pag'e 62. — i. From what is said in Une 30 it is évident that the Canadian was paddling the canoë.