. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. sun. The serpentopened wide his jaws, brist-ling with teeth like bayo-nets and in accents, whichechoed like thunder, heroared out ; I hate thewliole Huron race, Carcajou, I love andwill befriend.■ A thousand thanks. retorted the terrified Carcajou, Init could you not .soften that fearful voice of jours ; it deafens me, I feel as if it
. Illustrated Quebec, (The Gibraltar and tourists' Mecca of America) Under French and English occupancy : the story of its famous annals; with pen pictures descriptive of te matchless beauty and quaint mediaeval characteristics of the Canadian Gibraltar. sun. The serpentopened wide his jaws, brist-ling with teeth like bayo-nets and in accents, whichechoed like thunder, heroared out ; I hate thewliole Huron race, Carcajou, I love andwill befriend.■ A thousand thanks. retorted the terrified Carcajou, Init could you not .soften that fearful voice of jours ; it deafens me, I feel as if it would wrench off the very roof of my head. I am the Little Manitou, whom the ancient Hurons adored, replied^ the serpent. When crossed, my voice gets like thunder : it can move the %vater of river and lake and shake tlie mountains, but as I love you. I shall .speak in milder tones and my voice will become soft like the note of the 8i The black-robes call the Little Manitou, the Devil of the Christians, meekly replied Carcajou,scared at having to deal with such a redoutable visitor, instead of with our Sweet Lad) of Loretto. Hark ! my son, hissed the serpent, the Little Manitou, like the Devil of the Christians, can harmhis enemies, but he is harmless, like a new-born babe to those he likes. I love you, let us understandone another ! You frighten me, said Carcajou, I am but a man, tis difficult for a man to hold converse withsuch an awful being as you. Oh ! dont mind my looks, said the serpent, to facilitate our interview, I can transform you into alizard, a toad, a snake or a bullfrog ; just you choose what you would prefer to be, to speak to me. Thanks for your great kindness, replied Carcajou, I prefer to remain as I am, but could you notchange younself into something less hideous ? I am ever ready to oblige a friend, rejoined the reptile : I can take the form of a polar bear, awolf a panther or a rattle-snak
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