An opportunity offering in the spring, the Major placed her under the charge of a person going to Buffalo, that she might be returned to her parents.

In compliment to the new acquaintances she had formed, she shortened her skirts, mounted a pair of scarlet leggings embroidered with porcupine-quills, and took her leave of military life, having deposited with the gentleman who took charge of her sixty dollars, for safe keeping, which she remarked "she had _saved up_, out of her wages at a dollar a week, through the winter." * * * * * A very short time after we were settled in our new home at the Agency, we attempted the commencement of a little Sunday-school.

Edwin, Harry and Josette were our most reliable scholars, but besides them there were the two little Manaigres, Therese Paquette, and her mother's half-sister, Florence Courville, a pretty young girl of fifteen.

None of these girls had even learned their letters.

They spoke only French, or rather the Canadian _patois_, and it was exceedingly difficult to give them at once the sound of the words, and their signification, which they were careful to inquire.