Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . ireless as if his aged limbs had lostno strength by exposure to all weathers and la-bor, as a hunter and voyageur, for a long life-time ; and little Joe had extra double-shuflles,and intricate steps, and miraculously livelymovements, which made his mother and littlecousins very proud of him. In the intervals of the dance Madame Gan-grais, one of Joes lady cousins, sang some wildFrench ballads and a Catholic hymn. Thoseof our boys who were singers responded with afew choruses—negro melodies, of course. Monday week after our arrival
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 21 June to November 1860 . ireless as if his aged limbs had lostno strength by exposure to all weathers and la-bor, as a hunter and voyageur, for a long life-time ; and little Joe had extra double-shuflles,and intricate steps, and miraculously livelymovements, which made his mother and littlecousins very proud of him. In the intervals of the dance Madame Gan-grais, one of Joes lady cousins, sang some wildFrench ballads and a Catholic hymn. Thoseof our boys who were singers responded with afew choruses—negro melodies, of course. Monday week after our arrival in Pembinawe left for St. Joseph—a place seven milessouth of latitude 49°, about thirty miles westof Pembina, and likewise on Pembina River,which stream, west of St. Joseph (or St. Jo, asit is universally called) runs (according to Cap-tain Palisser) almost entirely in British terri-tory. Along the stream from its mouth to thelakes we afterward saw, in which it takes itsrise, a belt of prairie on either side, varying in o8G HABPERS NEW MONTHLY BTBAWBEBBIES. width, and covered with trees—oak, elm, poplar,and birch the principal varieties. Our roadwas over the open prairie, two or three milesnorth of the belt of timber, touching it here andthere at the larger bends. The wonder of this days travel was the acresand acres of strawberries through which thetrail passed. Beds of them, so thick that kneel-ing any where you could fill a hat full withoutmore than turning around ; large, ripe, lusciousstrawberries, tarter than those in our gardens,whose size has been increased at the expense ofa richness of flavor. The wheels crushed clumpsof them, and Avere reddened like the wheels ofJuggernaut. Again and again we were tempt-ed out of our saddles by some bed of thicker andfiner berries than that we had just left the ])rintof our knees on—gluttonous strawberry-bibbersevery one of us ! When we could eat no morefrom the vines, we filled our hats full, which weredevoured
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