The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1911-10-24
A Romantic
Story
But a Matter Of Fact Man
Spoiled 1t
BY WILLARD COOK
Copyright by American Press Assoc
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By WILLARD COOK

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A number of men were lounging
around a trading post In upper Cana
da- There was Jacques Trudeau. Jules
Marier and others. including Silas
Hutchins. Connecticut Yankee. who
had come up to trade miscellaneous
articles for furs Jacques Trudeau had
the name of being great story teller.
Often of an evening in winter. when
the trading of the day was ended.
those living near his store would drop
IN. gather about the stove. get out
their pipes and call on him for story.
His yarns, II 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 well
On this particular evening Jacques.
having been called upon for story.
chose an especially romantic subject.
when ! was young man an
English gentleman named Beaverton
came up here with his daughter
Clarissa- He bring gold monies to buy
furs He was YER fne gentleman In
deed. and his daughter Mees Brewer
ton was YER fine young lady. Made
moiselle she haf nothing to do here. SO
her father. while he buy furs to tax
all togedder at one time down to Mon
treal to sell. wish to find amusement
for her. So he get young SIKH
teacher named Antoine Brisson to
teach Mees Brewerton to use skis.
Antoine Brisson he YER fine looking
young man His face handsome. bis
hair fall on his shoulders I'm long black
curls from under bis fur cap His
buckskin suit show q divine figure
lax re Apollo Belvedere statue When
he speak his voice was lax bass notes
Of xe organ"
"See here, Trudeau," interrupted
Hutchins, wasn't there some danger
o them two fallin' In love and putin
the ole man to heap O. trouble?"
The story teller and the listeners sit
ding around the stove all looked up re-
proachfully at the Yankee. They knew
that there wss bound to be love az
fair between these two. but they
wished to have it 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 Beaverton he wish his
daughter to learn to trap. So he en-
gage Edouard Rubidoux to teach her.
Thees Rubidoux he YER handsome
man too. He hat eye LAX the eagle
"Hook noseT interrupted the Yam
kee. .
mo. sare- Why you ask zatf'
Eagles have 'em. Go on with your
yarn"
$50 Brisson he teach Mees Clarissa
to walk on skiis in re morning. and in
ne afternoon Rubidoux set re traps
for her. and another young man name
Peter GARNER some time teach her to
shoot 70 rife. Thees way Meester
Beaverton try to gif bees daughter
something's to do that she not be lonely
| IN 70 dark Canada woods in re winter.
when everything covered with snow
| She learn to shoot YER fine and ski
| YER fine, 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
he tax re skins to Montreal and haf
them made into cloak for her"
How much did be save" asked SiIas
Hutchins. ION the Montreal priceT
II dunno. Mees Beaverton want a
cloak made of re skins she trapped
with her beautiful hands.
"By thees time she go alone on her
skis and some time long distance
She TAX rife. SO eef she see some
things to shoot she can shoot them,
and when she come home somebody
| go out and bring In what she shoot.
Hfery afternoon she go out In thees
way to set her traps. and In re morn
ing she go again to see what she hat
| caught
"One day she went out on her skis
with her rife to set her traps. and no.
bodies knew she hat gone. That war
xe day OF re great blizzard. Eet be-
| gin TO snow at 4 o'clock In re aft
efnoon, and in half an hour xe fakes
come down twisted by re wind so they
make one person dizzy. At o'clock
Meester Brewerton come In for his
supper and ask for bis daughter. Then
he learn she is not at home. and he
YER much scare. for be thinks she go
| set her traps and not get back for
70 storm.
-He call on Antoine Brisson and
Edouard Rubidoux and Pierre Gar
nier and say: You go fnd my daugh
ter. Go by different ways, and who
ever brings her home to me gif him
hundred pounds.
sThees men go outside. and Brisson
say. I go to re nearest trap. and Rubi-
doux say. No: go to ne nearest trap.
You go to one OF re udder traps. And
GARNER he say, Which trap go tor
and Brisson say. You go to re third
trap And GARNER say: No: go to
ze second trap. got more chance to
| ind re lady Then they all talk at
once each man talking louder than 10
udder man. and'-
'Was It snowin all this timer" ask
| ed Hutchins
| Snow? Eet snow harder all re
time. Bimeby Brisson he dash OF In
one direction and re udders In two
different ways. and all disappear In re
| whirling snow fakes. ley all know
where re traps are, and one go to one
trap and anudder to anudder. But
by thees time eet grow dark. and eet
was hard to fnd re way. But they
all were used to go In re dark like
re animals. and thees does not make
SO much difference
"Meester Beaverton he walk up and
down lax a bear much worried. He
tink he not git bees daughter back no
more and she freeze to death under re
snow. Nine o'clock come. and nobody
comes-11 comes. and GARNER he
comes and says he find nothings Of
Mees Clarissa and he fear she freeze
to death At u O'Clock Rubidoux he
come IN stiff with re cold and hat not
found re young lady. Then Meester
Beaverton he say all my hope is in
Antoine Brisson."
"Was he the Teller with the curlsT"
asked Hutchena
"Hees hair war LAX ze wing Of re
raven
"a ravan Ia fha Sauna e~ a rrcvp