From then until spring I was kept busy in the fort day after day helping in the trade for the furs and robes that came to us in a perfect stream. In the following June our shipment totaled seven thousand fine head-and-tail buffalo robes; twenty-one hundred beaver pelts; four thousand elk, deer, and antelope skins; and about three thousand wolf pelts. After receiving the statement of the sale of them in St. Louis my uncle clapped his hands and laughed and cried out: "Tsistsaki, Thomas, this is how we stand: all our bills are paid, and we are ahead one good fort and forty-two thousand dollars in cash!"
"Ha! What happiness is ours!" my almost-mother exclaimed.
"And," said I, "we are not asking for goods on credit for next winter's trade, are we?"
THE END
The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
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