or fired a gun, on the praying day
since I heard about it at your house so far away."

Of course I was delighted at all this, and said some kind words of
encouragement. Then we resumed our dinner. I had my piece of meat in
one hand, and with the knife in the other was endeavouring to cut off
the pieces and eat them. The good woman replaced the precious paper and
pencil in her bosom, and then picked up her piece of meat from the dirty
ground, and, after turning it over and over in her hands, began with her
strong teeth to tear off the large mouthfuls. All at once she stopped
eating, and, looking intently at my piece, she said, "Your piece is not
a very good one, mine is very fine," and before I could protest, or say
a word, she quickly exchanged the pieces; and from her portion, which
she put in my hand, I had to finish my dinner. As what she did is
considered an act of great kindness, of course I would not grieve her by
showing any annoyance. So I quietly smothered any little squeamishness
that might naturally have arisen, and finished my dinner, and then
resumed the religious service. Soon after, she became a decided
Christian.

The following extracts are from the last letter which I sent to the
Mission Rooms, ere, owing to the failure of Mrs Young's health, we left
the land of the Saulteaux for work in the Master's Vineyard elsewhere.
The Mission had now been fully established, a comfortable parsonage
built and well furnished. A large school-house had been erected, which
answered also for the religious services until the church should be
finished. Many had been our trials and hardships, and there had been a
great deal of opposition, much of it from places not expected. But to
be enabled to send such tidings from such a place, where I had gone as
the first Missionary, and among such a wicked and degraded tribe as were
these Saulteaux, so different from the more peaceful Crees, caused my
heart to rejoice, that He Who had permitted me to go and sow the seed
had also given me the honour of seeing some golden sheaves gathered in
for the heavenly garner:--

"Last Sabbath was perhaps the most interesting and encouraging one we
have spent on the Mission. Our place of worship was crowded, and many
had to remain outside. Some of the old Indians who, in spite of our
pleadings, had clung to their paganism, renounced it on that day in a
most emphatic manner. Seven of them, after being questioned as to their
thorou