The United States has inherited the work of their genius.
Just as a nation lives at its noblest when it has the friendship and help of other countries, so a boy can better tell what to do with his own life when he hears the things that other lads have done. He will understand the present time after he has read the history of the past.
So with his plumed cap and his sword, with his whistle, his song and his fiddle, the French boy, Anthony Auguelle, the Picard du Gay, opens the brass lock of an ancient wooden-backed book, where he has been hidden, and walks out gaily to tell to-day's folks of the strange part he took in deciding the fate of the Great River and in the making of America.
J. G.
Indiana, 1918.
STRANGE STORIES
OF THE GREAT RIVER
I
A PAPER FLEET
Searching for the Father of Waters with the Indians' Friend, Jacques Marquette—A Voyage into the Unknown