rably. Will you undertake this part of the work for us?"
"The Canadians would prefer one of your race," was the answer.
"Nonsense! they will never know but you are a full-blooded white unless you tell them," returned the contractor; "put you in the uniform of our logging men, and the difference would never be known."
The young wife looked quickly toward the visitor, and said: "You are foreign, then; perhaps Spanish!"
"I am American," he answered, with a half smile.
"The real, aboriginal American," the husband added; "but has been so much among the whites that the wild woods look is quite wiped away."
Augustus Reid colored; while the wife said:
"I don't think that I would ever have guessed it. What a mixed population we live among!"
"That is so, Dimple," said the husband; "but