Part 17 (1/2)

”What do you mean?”

”Listen, and you shall hear

”Last year, we had fox furs--very many and very fine We had risked our lives: we had starved and frozen to get theava we had tracked and trapped in the wilderness

”Then--see what happened A trader ca us He had much money

It was not like any money we had seen before, but he said it was a new kind of ive us iven us before

”He gave us ave handsoht cloth for dresses He gave us tobacco, and whiskey

”When we did not knoe were doing, he bought our furs He bought thee uns in the air to honor hiht he was our friend We pro as sun and moon endured

”He s of hiht and new and green, with printed marks on it we could not read

”Soone, and said, 'No, no, brothers

We should not have taken this green paper and given him those furs'

”But others said, 'Look what he has paid us! We are all rich men The price is better than we ever had before!'

”The old, wise men said, 'How do you know that it is ht and day, there was talking to and fro--along the trail by day, around the camp-fire when the sun had set

”It soon caolet, on Has that ould need in the winter titheht of all the guns and tobacco, all the flour and the fine clothes so one many days, while aited in one fixed place for them, and in our minds spent the money many ti on his haunches, and puffing at his pipe Mr Cabot's leg was giving him much pain, but he was too proud to ask the Indian to do anything for hirew very stern as he remembered His tone became as hard as the expression of his face He looked at Mr Cabot and clenched his fist ”When our men came to the storekeeper, they walked all about the store 'I'll take that fine dress,' said one 'Giveof tobacco,' said a third Soht ornaot a talking-machine Some chose the best clothes in the store They also took uns

”They s on the floor, to take theht out their s

”'What is that stuff?' said the storekeeper

”'That? It is our money It is what a trader paid us for our furs'

”'What was his name?'

”'That we do not know We did not ask We do not care who buys froood as another's'

”Then the storekeeper laughed in their faces And he said: 'You have been fooled You have been fooled as easily as little children Do you knohat this ”iven me?'

”'No,' they said

”'It is notbut labels fros you have piled up on the floor I will take the me real money for them'

”Then they said to hio back to our people with nothing'