De Cure he ver' fond of him.

All de leetla children, boys and girls, dey all say: 'C'est bon Mathurin!' He is not ver' cross--non.

He have no wife, no child; jes live by himself all alone.

But he is ver' good friends with everybody in Pontiac.

When he go 'long de street, everybody say, 'Ah, dere go de good Mathurin!' He laugh, he tell story, he smoke leetla tabac, he take leetla white wine behin' de door; dat is nosing--non.
"He have in de parish five, ten, twenty children all call Mathurin; he is godfadder with dem--yes.