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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: call "Betseys," as if they were all of the gentler sex. In such a
big family of girls we supposed that a few would not be missed, and
Damon bagged two of the tenderest for our supper.
In the still water at the mouth of the Riviere Mistook, just above
the Rapide aux Cedres, we went ashore on a level wooded bank to
make our first camp and cook our dinner. Let me try to sketch our
men as they are busied about the fire.
They are all French Canadians of unmixed blood, descendants of the
men who came to New France with Samuel de Champlain, that
incomparable old woodsman and life-long lover of the wilderness.
Ferdinand Larouche is our chef--there must be a head in every party
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