Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-10-21
A Romantic
Story
Bus a Matter Of Fact Man
Spoiled 1t
3, WILLARD COOK
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1911.
By WILLARD COOK

j A number Of men were lounglns
around trading post in upper Cuna
da. There was Jacques Trudeau, Jules
Mar,er and others. including S1las
Hutchins. a Connecticut Yankee VINO
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
+be 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, 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 well.
On this particular evening Jacques
having been called upon for a story,
chose an especially romantic subject.
when 1 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 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 at one time down to Mon
treal 10 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
curls from under his fur cap. His
buckskin suit show q 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 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 nave it developed in E'od
story form. Trudeau did not deign
reply, and when they had all recovered
from the shock of the interruptions he
continued his story without changing
in the slightest the lines he had laid
down for its construction:
'Meester Beaverton be wish his
daughter to learn to trap. So he en-
gage Edouard Rubidoux to teach her.
Tbees Rubidoux he YER handsome
man too. He hat eye lax the eagle
Hook nose2" interrupted the Yam
kee.
mo. sare Why you ask Zat?'
eagles have 'em. Go on with your
yarn"
$50 Brisson he teach Mees ,Clarissa
to walk on skis in re morning. and in
re afternoon Rubidoux set re traps
for her, and another young man name
Peter GARNER some time teach her to
shoot re rifle. Thecs way Meester
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 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 hat
them made into cloak for her"
How much did he save" asked Silas
Hutchins. ION the Montreal price,"
81 dunno MeeS Beaverton want
cloak made of &c skins she trapped
with her beautiful hands.
'.By thees time she so 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
go out and bring in what she shoot
Fiery afternoon she so out il thees
way to set her traps. and in re morn
ing she so again to see what she hat
caught.
lone day she went out on her skis
with her rifle to set her traps. and no.
bodies knew she hat gone. That war
re day OF re great blizzard. Eet be-
gin to snow at o'clock in re aft
ernoon, and in half an hour re fakes
come down twisted by re wind so they
make one person dizzy. AT 6 o'clock
Mecster Brewerton come in for his
supper and ask for his 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
Re storm.
He call on Antoine Br:sson and
Edouard Rubidoux and Pierre Gar
nier and say: You go find my daugh-
ter. Go by different ways. and who
ever brings her home to me l gif him
hundred pounds