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This, I think, is a good one. I want a paddle; Here is one for you. Thank you, friend. Where is your wife? She is dead. Is it long since? Last winter. Have you any children alive? Only one boy. Can he hunt? Not yet. Where is your brother? I saw him last winter at the Skunk's Lake; He was killed there by an Indian when he was drunk. He was a bad Indian, and they should have killed him too; An Indian just now told me he is killed. That's right. {290} Was he old? No. He had three packs of beaver skins, and ten bags of dried meat, besides fish, when he was killed:

Oh! that was hard. Who is that coming? A strange Indian: I will go and see him. Are you come from far, friend? No, a little way from hence.