These they put in their hats, and thus figured about Mackinaw, assuming airs of vast importance, as "voyageurs" in a new company, that was to eclipse the Northwest.

The effect was complete.

A French Canadian is too vain and mercurial a being to withstand the finery and ostentation of the feather.

Numbers immediately pressed into the service.

One must have an ostrich plume; another, a white feather with a red end; a third, a bunch of cock's tails.