THE ORIGINAL GAME.
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Three Rivers, they saw the game, which Charlevoix calls "le jeu de la crosse," played by the Algonquins, who used the present stick.
The Hurons at Loretto, below Quebec, played extensively about fifty years ago, using the present stick and a ball of worsted, covered with deer-skin. Their goals were lines drawn at both ends of the field, and game was decided by throwing across either line. The sport was very rough and tumble. Latterly this remnant of the great Huron tribe have entirely neglected their glorious pastime.
