Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-10-23
The Argus Daily Story
A Romantic Story-By Willard Cook.
Copyrighted. 1911. by Associated Literary Bureau


da- There was Jacques Trudeau. Jules
Marier and others. including Silas
Hutchins, a Connecticut Yankee. who
had come up to trade miscellaneous
articles for furs Jacques Trudeau had
the name OF being a 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 ont
their pipes and call on him for a story.
His yarns. If they had been developed
into novels. would have made best
sellers today. for they were full II
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
/ Clsrissa. He bring gold monies to buy
/ furs He was YER fine gentleman in
{
/ 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 at one time down to Mon
/ treal 20 sell. wish TO find amusement
for her. So he get a young ski
teacher named Antoine Brisson to
! teach Mees Beaverton to use skis
Antoine Brisson he YER fine looking
young man. His face handsome. his
! hair fall on his shoulders in long black
curIs from under his fur cap. His
! buckskin suit show a divine figure
lax re Apollo Belvedere statue. When
/ he speak his voice was LAX bass notes
of re organ"
"See here. Trudeau." interrupted
Hutchins. wasn't there some danger
O. them two fallin' in love and putin
the ole man to a 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 af-
fair between these two. but they
wished 10 have it developed in good
story form. Trudeau did not deign 4
reply. anu "llell lhtN isiO al itNONIANN
from the shock of the interruption he
continued his story without changing
in the slightest the lines he lad laid
down for its construction:
"Meester Brewerton 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 nose?" interrupted the Yam
Tee.
mo, sare Why you ask zat:"
Eagles have 'eui. Go on with your
yarn
so Brisson he teach Mees Clarissa
to walk on skis in ze morning, and in
ze afternoon Rubidoux set re traps
for her, and another young man name
Peter GARNER some time teach her 10
shoot re rifle. Thces way Neester
Beaverton 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 ski
YER line, aud she know how TO set
trap One day she kill a bear. anudder
day she kill a deer, and in re traps she
catch enough mink zat her fadder say
he tax ze skins to Montreal and haf
them made into cloak for her"
How much did he save" asked Silas
Hntchins. "on the Montreal price,
81 dunno Mees Beaverton want
cloak made Of re skins she trapped
with her beautiful hands.
by thees time she go alone on her
skis and SONY time long distance.
She tax rife. 50 eef she see some
things TO shoot she can shoot them, |
and when she come home somebody /
60 out anG bring in what she shoot. /
Fiery afternoon she so out in thees ,
way TO SET her traps. ana n re morn
ing she go again 70 see what she bar .
caught
lone day she went out on her skis
with her rife TO set her traps. ard no
bodies knew she hnf gone Tha- war
ze day of re great blizzard. Eft be
gin 70 snow at 4 o'clock in z. aft
ernoOn. and in half an hour re dakcs .
come down twisted by 70 wind 50 they .
make one person. dizzy. At o'clock .
Meester Beaverton come in for his .
supper and ask for his daughter Then
he learn she is not at home. and he
set her traps and not get back for
ze storm.
He call on Antoine Brissou and
Edouard RubidOux and Pierre Gar
nier and say: You go find my diugh-
ter. Go by different ways. and who
ever brings her home TO me gif him
hundred pounds
"Thees men go outside. and Brisson
say. i 60 to re nearest trap. and Bubi-
cOux say, NO; ] 90 to re nea rest rap. .
700 20 TO one Of ze udder traps And /
GARNER be say. Which trap 20 toy .
And BrfssOn say. YOU go 70 u 'hird
rrap.' And GARNER say: NO: ~ 10
Ze second trap. got more cta- 70
find re lady. Then they al - az
once. each man talking Iou6eT q. 10 -
adder man. and
WAS II sboyyin' AL this time EsE-