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Preface
Chapter 1 - Plunges the reader into the middle of an Arctic winter; conveys him into the heart of the wildernesses of North America; and introduces him to some of the principal personages of our tale.
Chapter 2 - The old fur-trader endeavours to “fix” his son’s “flint,” and finds the thing more difficult to do than he expected.
Chapter 3 - The counting-room.
Chapter 4 - A wolf-hunt in the prairies—Charley astonishes his father, and breaks in the “noo ’oss” effectually.
Chapter 5 - Peter Mactavish becomes an amateur doctor; Charley promulgates his views of things in general to Kate; and Kate waxes sagacious.
Chapter 6 - Spring and the voyageurs.
Chapter 7 - The store.
Chapter 8 - Farewell to Kate—Departure of the brigade—Charley becomes a voyageur.
Chapter 9 - The voyage—The encampment—A surprise.
Chapter 10 - Varieties, vexations, and vicissitudes.
Chapter 11 - Charley and Harry begin their sporting career, without much success—Whisky-John catching.
Chapter 12 - The storm.
Chapter 13 - The canoe—Ascending the rapids—The portage—Deer-shooting, and life in the woods.
Chapter 14 - The Indian camp—The new outpost—Charley sent on a mission to the Indians.
Chapter 15 - The feast—Charley makes his first speech in public, and meets with an old friend—An evening in the grass.
Chapter 16 - The return—Narrow escape—A murderous attempt, which fails—And a discovery.
Chapter 17 - The scene changes—Bachelor’s Hall—A practical Joke and its consequences—A snow-shoe walk at night in the forest.
Chapter 18 - The walk continued—Frozen toes—An encampment in the snow.
Chapter 19 - Shows how the accountant and Harry set their traps and what came of it.
Chapter 20 - The accountant’s story.
Chapter 21 - Ptarmigan-hunting—Hamilton’s shooting powers severely tested—A snowstorm.
Chapter 22 - The winter packet—Harry hears from old friends, and wishes that he was with them.
Chapter 23 - Changes—Harry and Hamilton find that variety is indeed charming—The latter astonishes the former considerably.
Chapter 24 - Hopes and fears—An unexpected meeting—Philosophical talk between the hunter and the parson.
Chapter 25 - Good news and romantic scenery—Bear-hunting and its results.
Chapter 26 - An unexpected meeting, and an unexpected deer-hunt—Arrival at the outpost—Disagreement with the natives—An enemy discovered, and a murder.
Chapter 27 - The chase—The fight—Retribution—Low spirits and good news.
Chapter 28 - Old friends and scenes—Coming events cast their shadows before.
Chapter 29 - The first day at home—A gallop in the prairie, and its consequences.
Chapter 30 - Love—Old Mr Kennedy puts his foot in it.
Chapter 31 - The course of true love, curiously enough, runs smooth for once, and the curtain falls.
PrefaceIN WRITING THIS BOOK my desire has been to draw an exact copy of the picture which is indelibly stamped on my own memory. I have carefully avoided exaggeration in everything of importance. All the chief and most of the minor incidents are facts. In regard to unimportant matters, I have taken the liberty of a novelist—not to colour too highly, or to invent improbabilities, but—to transpose time, place, and circumstance at pleasure; while, at the same time, I have endeavoured to convey to the reader’s mind a truthful impression of the general effect—to use a painter’s language—of the life and country of the Fur-Trader.
R.M. Ballantyne.
Edinburgh, 1856.
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