Snowflakes and Sunbeams

Snowflakes and Sunbeams

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THE YOUNG FUR-TRADERS.

UNIFORM WITH THIS BOOK.
_THE CORAL ISLAND. MARTIN RATTLER. UNCAVA._

[Illustration: Pierre was standing over the great kettle. "_The Young
Fur Traders_]" Frontispiece

SNOWFLAKES AND SUNBEAMS; OR, THE YOUNG
FUR-TRADERS
A Tale of the Far North.
BY ROBERT MICHAEL BALLANTYNE

PEEFACE.
In 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.
EDINBURGH, 1856.

CHAPTER I
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 II
The old fur-trader endeavours to "fix" his son's "flint," and finds the
thing more difficult to do than he expected

CHAPTER III
The counting-room

CHAPTER IV.
A wolf-hunt in the prairies; Charley astonishes his father, and breaks in
the "noo'oss" effectually

CHAPTER V
Peter Mactavish becomes an amateur doctor; Charley promulgates his
views of things in general to Kate; and Kate waxes sagacious

CHAPTER VI
Spring and the voyageurs

CHAPTER VII.
The store

CHAPTER VIII.

Farewell to Kate; departure of the brigade; Charley becomes a
voyageur

CHAPTER IX.
The voyage; the encampment; a surprise

CHAPTER X.
Varieties, vexations, and vicissitudes

CHAPTER XI.
Charley and Harry begin their sporting career without much success;
Whisky-John catching

CHAPTER XII.
The storm

CHAPTER XIII.
The canoe; ascending the rapids; the portage; deer- shooting and life in
the woods

CHAPTER XIV.
The Indian camp; the new outpost; Charley sent on a mission to the
Indians

CHAPTER XV.
The feast; Charley makes his first speech in public; meets with an old
friend; an evening in the grass

CHAPTER XVI

The return; narrow escape; a murderous attempt, which fails; and a
discovery

CHAPTER XVII
The scene changes; Bachelors' Hall; a practical joke and its
consequences; a snow-shoe walk at night in the forest

CHAPTER XVIII
The walk continued; frozen toes; an encampment in the snow

CHAPTER XIX
Shows how the accountant and Harry set their traps, and what came of
it

CHAPTER XX
The accountant's story

CHAPTER XXI
Ptarmigan-hunting; Hamilton's shooting powers severely tested; a
snow-storm

CHAPTER XXII
The winter packet; Harry hears from old friends, and wishes that he
was with them

CHAPTER XXIII
Changes; Harry and Hamilton find that variety is indeed, charming; the
latter astonishes the former considerably

CHAPTER XXIV

Hopes and fears; an unexpected meeting; philosophical talk between
the hunter and the parson

CHAPTER XXV
Good news and romantic scenery; bear-hunting and its results

CHAPTER XXVI
An unexpected meeting, and an unexpected deer-hunt; arrival at the
outpost; disagreement with the natives; an enemy discovered, and a
murder

CHAPTER XXVII
The chase; the fight; retribution; low spirits and good news

CHAPTER XXVIII
Old friends and scenes; coming events cast