Ti-Ti-Pu: A Boy of Red River

Old World

ay Company, in which he was interested, would prove no less a benefit to the natives than an excellent thing for the colonists. Accordingly, he busied him

d by his good wife, Kirstie, his sturdy son, Hector, then just on the edge of his te

surely never stood upon four legs. He bore himself as if he were responsible, not merely for the occupants of the

touches of golden-brown on his shapely head. He was only a little slighter than Dour, and as lively and frolicsome as the other was impassive. Al

members of the family as Ailie and himself. He would have shared his last bit of bannock or su

and and foot, and the rapidity of thought that made him an unquestioned leader among his playfellows, and from his mother t

but his mother had his whole heart, and many a time did he go to her f

Macraes made up a notably happy family group, and were the recipients of many attentions from thei

salter than the sea itself, and hard biscuits that became alive with weevils ere the ship reached its destination, all the colonists suffered more or less severely

drew Macrae, with heartfelt emphasis, as he sprang out of the boat and strod

times in his first attempt at running, and even Dour and Dandy, for a little, seemed

comed by the Hudson's Bay Company's employees at York Factory, made hast

nd there, with their two children and faithful dogs, they settled

lie, and having Dour and Dandy, went down to the be

required for provisioning the forts, or trading with the Indians, while Indians and half-breeds lounged near by, watching them with half-contemptuous interest. The Hudson's Bay officials

showing their feelings in the matter. No sooner did the collies draw near them than they rushed to meet them, snarling and growling so ferociously that Hector began to feel a little alarmed, while Ailie shrank closer to him, clasping his hand tightly in hers, and mur

e group in a very menacing way. At last they got so close that Dour and Dandy, in their love and loyalty to the two childr

: 'Away, you brutes!' while he laid his stick stoutly upon the backs and heads of the Huskies, an

le enabled them to hold their own. Keeping close together in front of the children, they struck to right and left with t

the risk of being badly bitten himself, the issue must have gone hard against the gallant collies, for the Huskies would not have sto

ry one meant a disabled or disheartened dog, until, presently, the whole pack had fled out of reach, and the wrathful Scotsman stood panting but triumphant, Ailie clinging sobbingly to one knee, and Hect