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PLAIN TALES OF THE NORTH
BY CAPTAIN THIERRY MALLET
G. P. Putnam’s Sons
New York & London
The Knickerbocker Press
1926
Copyright, 1925
by
Revillon Frères
Made in the United States of America
A DEDICATION
To the small group of men
outside the pale of civilization who
... isolated in the Far North ...
cling to the traditions which, for two
centuries, have been represented by
the flag of Revillon Frères.
THE TALES THAT ARE TOLD
I. A Grave in Saskatchewan
II. Traveling by Canoe
III. “Spot”
IV. In Civilization
V. A Pilot
VI. Native Mechanics
VII. War News in Husky Land
VIII. A Birch Bark Canoe
IX. A Silver Fox and a Scarf
X. Dead in the Storm
XI. A Strange Team
XII. A Moose Story
XIII. The Little Blue Lake
XIV. Forest Fires
XV. An Indian Wake
XVI. A Walrus Story
XVII. Mohican ... The Wolf
XVIII. Fighting Against Starvation
XIX. Wild Animals in the Water
XX. “Sunday”
XXI. Filming a White Bear on Land
XXII. Vermin and Ants
XXIII. A Greenhorn in a Rapid
XXIV. Large Fish
XXV. A Little Indian Girl
XXVI. Outlawed in the Barren Lands
XXVII. One Thousand Years
XXVIII. A Practical Joke
XXIX. Eskimo Arithmetic
XXX. “Caribou”
XXXI. In Siberia
XXXII. In the Hudson Straits
XXXIII. Whiskey Jack
XXXIV. Makejo
XXXV. Two Little Eskimo Boys
XXXVI. An Indian Warrior
XXXVII. Burro
XXXVIII. Travelling in North Alberta
XXXIX. Mother and Cubs
XL. An Old Trader
XLI. Wolverine
XLII. “Spot” ... Again
XLIII. Homesick
XLIV. Gotehe
XLV. Pets in the Wilderness
XLVI. An Eskimo Guide in the Barren Lands
XLVII. Man and Wife
XLVIII. “Forty Years Ago”
XLIX. Fisher and Porcupine
L. The Call of the Wild North of Fifty-three
The true romance of the far North has been captured in these short stories gathered and written by Captain Thierry Mallet, President of Revillon Frères, New York. For the past twenty years he has spent part of each year inspecting our trading-posts on the outskirts of civilization.
Through his long arduous journeys over the swift waters, as well as the vast areas of ice-clad country in the North, and through his constant companionship with the fearless men of these barren lands, Captain Mallet is particularly fitted to give us these unusual and striking tales.
Victor Revillon,
Jean M. Revillon.
PLAIN TALES OF THE NORTH