For my part I don't wonder that these people resent the action of the Government in introducing a completely new survey without saying 'by your leave.' There are troubles, too, about their land patents." "How many of these half-breeds are there anyway ?" "Well, only a few hundreds I should say.

But it isn't the half-breeds we fear.

The mischief of it is they have been sending runners all through this country to their red-skin friends and relatives, holding out all sorts of promises, the restoration of their hunting grounds to the Indians, the establishing of an empire of the North, from which the white race shall be excluded.

I've heard them.

Just enough truth and sense in the whole mad scheme to appeal to the Indian mind.