She replenished the fire, dried his clothes, and gave him some warm and nourishing food.

The grateful father writes: "Her kindness to my little boy did me ten times as much good as anything she could have done for me, if she had tried her best." These were not the days of temperance.

The whiskey-bottle was considered one of the indispensables of every log cabin which made any pretences to gentility.

The boat, moored near the shore, was loaded with whiskey, flour, sugar, hardware, and other articles, valuable in the Indian trade in the purchase of furs, and in great demand in the huts of pioneers.

There was a small trading-post at what was called McLemone's Bluff; about thirty miles farther up the river by land, and nearly one hundred in following the windings of the stream.