loggin' road. ’Bout nine years 
     
     ago, in de fall, I was goin’ down 
     
     dat road with Archy Lodge, when 
     
     we saw big pine log lyin' right 
     
     cross de road. Archy he say, 
     
     ‘s’pose we have chop dat log to 
     
     get team by.’ I say, ‘Yes, s'pose’; 
     
     an’ Archy he get off an’ go to git 
     
     de axe. Den dat tree he move 
     
     right out de road, an' go trough 
     
     de brush like de devil, an’ break 
     
     down maple saplin’s big's my arm. 
     
     So ’twas a big snake!” 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Maliceet Indians are now found chiefly on the St. John 
     
     River and its tributaries. The Micmacs are found in eastern 
     
     parts of New Brunswick, and in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward 
     
     Island. The Micmacs are not a cross between the Irish and Scotch 
     
     —as has been humorously remarked might be thought from their 
     
     name. Both Maliceet and Miemac trace their descent from the 
     
     great Algonquin nation. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Indians are eloquent. Read the reply of the old Maliceet 
     
     chief to the Government Commissioners who were sent to dispossess 
     
     the Indians of their lands at l\/ledoctec on the St. John. The com- 
     
     missioners asked : “ By what right or title do you hold these lands 1’" 
     
     The old Chief. with knowledge of right on his side, pointed to the 
     
     little enclosures by the river as he gravely said, “There are. the 
     
     graves of our grandfathers ! There are the graves of our fathers ! 
     
     There are the graves of our children !" To this argument the 
     
     commissioners could make no reply, and the Indians were left in 
     
     possession. 
     
    
   
   
    
     An Indian courtship was formerly a very simple affair. If a 
     
     young brave decided to marry »— 
     
     his relatives approving—he would 
     
     go into the Wigwam where an 
     
     ” eligible” maiden lived, and look 
     
     at her without saying one word. 
     
     If he liked her appearance he tossed 
     
     a chip into her lap. This was 
     
     ” popping the question." The 
     
     maiden would shyly pretend to 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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