Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, by William Briggs, Toronto, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture, at Ottawa.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| I. | Old Man Savarin | [7] |
| II. | The Privilege of the Limits | [29] |
| III. | McGrath's Bad Night | [45] |
| IV. | Great Godfrey's Lament | [67] |
| V. | The Red-headed Windego | [89] |
| VI. | The Shining Cross of Rigaud | [109] |
| VII. | Little Baptiste | [125] |
| VIII. | The Ride by Night | [152] |
| IX. | Drafted | [174] |
| X. | A Turkey Apiece | [199] |
| XI. | Grandpapa's Wolf Story | [219] |
| XII. | The Waterloo Veteran | [239] |
| XIII. | John Bedell | [251] |
| XIV. | Verbitzsky's Stratagem | [271] |
For liberty to issue these stories in present form the author has to thank The Youths' Companion, Boston; the proprietors of "Two Tales," in which "Old Man Savarin" and "Great Godfrey's Lament" first appeared; and "Harper's Weekly" and Mr. S. S. McClure's syndicate of newspapers, which, respectively, first published "The Privilege of the Limits" and "John Bedell".
OLD MAN SAVARIN.
Old Ma'ame Paradis had caught seventeen small doré, four suckers, and eleven channel-catfish before she used up all the worms in her tomato-can. Therefore she was in a cheerful and loquacious humor when I came along and offered her some of my bait.