Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1911-11-14
A Romantic
Story
But a Matter Of Fact Man
Spoiled 1t
BY WILLARD COOK
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation, 1911.

a uuuUtE VI iuSu WSiS souA6iAt
around a trading post in upper Cana
da. There was Jacques Trudeau. Jules
Marier and others. including Silas
Hutchins. a Connecticut Yankee. who
had CONS up to trade miscellaneous
articles for furs. Jacques Trudeau had
the name Of being great story teller
Often of an evening In winter. wher
the trading af the day was ended
those living near his store would DROP
in. gather about the stove. get ou'
their pipes and call on him for story
His yarns. If they had been developed
into novels. would have made best
sellers" today. for they were full OF
adventure. surprises and escapes. But
these were favored with that rhapsody
which the French people love so we'll
On this particular evening jacques
having been called upon for a story
chose an especially romantic subject
"When | was a young man an
English gentleman named Brewerton
came up here with his daughter
Clarissa. He bring gold monies to buy
furs. BE was ver' fine gentleman In
deed, and his daughter Mees Brewer
ton was YER fine young lady. Made
moiselle she hat nothing to do here. SO
her father, while he buy furs to tax
all togedder ut one time down to Mon,
treal 70 sell. wish to find amusement
for her. SO be get a young Skill
teacher named Antoine Brisson to
teach Mees Brewerton to use skis.
Antoine Brisson be YER fine looking
younp man. His face handsome. his
hair fall on his shoulders in long black
curls from under his fur cap. His
buckskin suit show divine figure
lax re Apollo Belvedere statue. When
he speak his voice was lax bass notes
Of ze organ"
"See here. Trudeau." interrupted
Hutchins. wasn't there some danger
O. them two fallin' in love and putin
the ole man to q heap O trouble?
The story teller and the listeners sit
ting around the stove all looked up re-
proachfully at the Yankee. They knew
that there WAS bound to be love at
fair between these two. but they
wished to have 1t developed in good
story form. Trudeau did not deign a
reply, and when they had all recovered
from the shock of the interruption he
continued his story without changing
In the slightest the lines he had laid
down for its construction:
"Meester Rrewerton be wish his
daughter to learn to trap. So he en-
gage Edouard Rubidoux to teach her
Thees Rubidoux he YER handsome
man too. He haf eye lax the eagle
Hook .noseT" interrupted the Yam
kee
"No. sare Why you ask zat7"
eagles have 'em. Go on with your
yarn
$50 Brisson he teach Mees Clarissa
to walk on skis in re morning. and IN
ze afternoon Rubidoux set re traps
for her. and another young man name
Peter GARNER some time teach her to
shoot re rifle. Thees way Meester
Brewerton try to gif hees daughter
something's to do that she not be lonely
In re dark Canada woods in re winter.
when everything covered with snow.
She learn to shoot YER fine and skill
YER tine. and she know how to set
trap. One day she kill bear, anudder
day she kill deer. and In re traps she
catch enough mink Eat her fadder say
be tax ze skins to Montreal and haf
them made into cloak for her."
"How much did he save" asked Silas
Rutchins. ION the Montreal price?
81 dunno. Mees Brewerton want a
cloak made Of re skins she trapped
With her beautiful hands.
by thees time she 60 alone on her
skis and some time long distance.
She tax rifle. so eef she see some
things to shoot she can shoot them,
and when she come home somebody
20 out and bring in what she shoot.
Efery afternoon she 60 out In thees
way to set her traps. and In re morn
ing she 60 again to see what she haf
caught.
Zone day she went out on her skis
with her rifle to set her traps. and no.
bodies knew she haf gone. That war
ze day of ze great blizzard Eet be-
gin to snow at o'clock In ze aft
ernoon. and In half an hour ze fakes
come down twisted by ze wind so they
make one person dizzy. At @ o'clock
Meester Brewerton come In for bis
supper and ask for bis daughter. Then
he learn she is not at home. and he
YER much scare. for he thinks she 60
set her traps and not get back for
ze storm.
HE call on Antoine Brisson and
Edouard Rubidoux and Pierre Gar
nier and say: You 60 find my daugh'
ter. 60 by different ways. and who
ever brings her home to me gif him
hundred pounds.
"Thees men 60 outside. and Brisson
say. 4 20 to ze nearest trap. and Rubi-
doux say. No: l 60 to ze nearest trap
You 20 to one of re udder traps And
GARNER he say. Which trap | 60 tor
And Brisson say, You 80 to re third
trap And GARNER say: No: I 60 to
re second trap. l got more chance to
find ze lady, Then they all talk 81.
once. each man talking louder than -
udder man. and
"Was It snowin' all this timer ask.
ed Hutchins.
SNOW? Eet snow harder all 1e
time. Bimeby Brisson he dash on In
one direction and re udders In two
different ways. and all disappear In re
whirling snow fakes. ley all know
where ze traps are. and one go to one
trap and anudder to anudder. But
by thees time eet grow dark. and eet
was hard to Hnd ze way. But they
all were used to 60 In ze dark ike
re animals. and thees does not make
so much difference.
"Meester Brewerton be walk up and
down lax bear much worried. he
tink be not git hees daughter back no
more and she freeze to death under ze
snow. Nine o'clock come. and nobody
comes--ll comes, and GARNER be