“Qu’est ce que l’on chasse avec les chiens?”
“Ya.”
Don now began to doubt whether his new friend spoke either French or English, and had recourse to Chippewa, at least as near Chippewa as he could come.
“Vat you chase, chassy, vis the doggees?”
“Ya.”
“You chase les cerfs the deer, the elks, the moose?” gesticulating freely.
“Ya.”
“The beaver, the—the—castor?”
“Ya.”
“The rabbit, the—the—ze rabeet?”