The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-05-15
By WILLARD COOK

around a trading post in upper Cana
da. There was Jacques Trudeau. Jules
Marier and others. including Silas
Hutchins, q 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. 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 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
she hat nothing to do here. so
her father, while he buy furs to tax
all togedder at one time down to Mon
treal 70 sell, wish to find amusement
for her. So he get young skill
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 divine figure
lax re Apollo Belvedere statue. When
be 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-
at the Yankee. They knew
that there was bound to be love at
fair between these two. but they
wished to have it developed in good
story form. Trudeau did not deign
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 constructions:
"Meester Beaverton he wish his
daughter to learn to trap. So he en-
gage Edouard Rubidoux to teach her.
rhees Rubidoux he YER handsome
nan too. He hat eye lax the eagle
Hook nose?" interrupted the Yam
see
mo. sare. Why you ask zat?"
eagles have 'em. Go on with your
yarn"
so Brisson he teach Mees Clarissa
% walk on skis in re morning. and in
.e afternoon Rubidoux set re traps
Tor her. and another young man name
Peter GARNER some time teach her to
shoot re rifle. Thees way Meester
Beaverton try to gif hees daughter
to do that she not be lonely
N re dark Canada woods in re winter.
when everything covered with snow.
She learn to shoot YER fine and ski
1er' tine. and she know how to SET
rap. One day she kill bear. anudder
lay she kill deer. and in re traps she
'atch enough mink Eat her ladder say
le tax re skins to Montreal and hat
hem made into cloak for her.
How much did he save" asked Silas
ION the Montreal price,"
II dunno Mees Beaverton want a
.loak made Of re skins she trapped
With her beautiful hands.
"Hy theps time she 20 alone on her
kits and some time long distance.
She tax rite. so eef she see some
hings to shoot she can shoot them,
md when she come home somebody
% out and bring in what she shoot.