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 rably. Will you undertake this part of the work for us?"

"The Canadians would prefer one of your race," was the answer.

"Nonsense! they will never know but you are a full-blooded white unless you tell them," returned the contractor; "put you in the uniform of our logging men, and the difference would never be known."

The young wife looked quickly toward the visitor, and said: "You are foreign, then; perhaps Spanish!"

"I am American," he answered, with a half smile.

"The real, aboriginal American," the husband added; "but has been so much among the whites that the wild woods look is quite wiped away."

Augustus Reid colored; while the wife said:

"I don't think that I would ever have guessed it. What a mixed population we live among!"

"That is so, Dimple," said the husband; "but