You know the Indian is a cunning diplomatist.

He very soon sees which is the stronger side and takes it.
When the King is dead he is ready to shout, Long live the new King.

I have heard that down on the point, on the south side of the Forks of the two rivers, the Frenchmen built a fort, but there wasn't a stick or a stone of it left when the Selkirk Colonists came in 1812.

But perhaps you know that part of the story better than I do," ventured the old patriarch.

That is the Story of the French Explorers.
"Oh! Yes," replied the writer, "you know the world of men and things about you; I know the world of books and journals and letters." "Let us hear of that," said the patriarch eagerly.
[Illustration: MOUND BUILDERS' REMAINS A.Native Copper Drill.
B.Soapstone Conjurer's tube.
C.Flint Skinning Implement.
D.Horn Fish Spear.
E.Native Copper Cutting Knife.
F.Cup found in Rainy River Mound by the Author, 1884.] Well, you know the French Explorers were very venturesome.