This is the dull season, when I can amuse myself only by writing and experimenting.

A little later, when the furs begin to come in, there will be plenty of life at Adare House." "Do you buy many furs ?" asked Philip.
"Yes.

But not because I am in the business for money.

Josephine got me into it because of her love for the forest people." He led the way into his big study; and added, as he threw off his cap and coat: "You know in all the world no people have a harder struggle than these men, women, and little children of the trap-lines.

From Labrador westward to the Mackenzie it is the land of the caribou, the rabbit, and the fur-bearing animals, but the land is not suitable for farming.
It has been, it will always be, the country of the hunter.
"To the south the Ojibway may grow a little corn and wheat.