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Title: Ti-Ti-Pu
A Boy of Red River

Author: J. Macdonald Oxley

Release Date: September 16, 2010 [EBook #33740]

Language: English

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TI-TI-PU

A BOY OF RED RIVER

BY

J. MACDONALD OXLEY

Author of 'Standing the Test,' etc.

TORONTO

THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY LIMITED

1900

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. FROM THE OLD WORLD TO THE NEW
II. AT ODDS WITH BRUIN
III. A COLD PLUNGE
IV. HECTOR ENTRAPPED
V. THE SEARCH FOR HECTOR
VI. ORDERED OFF
VII. HOW HECTOR GOT HIS NICKNAME
VIII. ON THE MOVE AGAIN
IX. THE BUFFALO HUNT
X. LOST ON THE PRAIRIE
XI. THE LOSING AND FINDING OF AILIE
XII. THE MOOSE HUNT

TI-TI-PU

A Boy of Red River

CHAPTER I

From the Old World to the New

This is how it befell. Thomas Douglas, Earl of Selkirk, thought that a
flourishing colony right in the midst of the rich hunting-grounds of
the Hudson's Bay Company, in which he was interested, would prove no
less a benefit to the natives than an excellent thing for the
colonists. Accordingly, he busied himself in persuading a number of
his fellow-countrymen to leave their hillside farms, and, with their
families, voyage to the unknown wilds of the New World.

Among those whose courage was equal to this enterprise was Andrew
Macrae, accompanied by his good wife, Kirstie, his sturdy son, Hector,
then just on the edge of his teens, his bonnie wee daughter, Ailie, and
his two splendid sheep dogs, Dour and Dandy.

The dogs' names were not given them at random. They just fitted their
natures. A more serious creature than Dour surely never stood upon
four legs. He bore himself as if he were responsible, not merely for
the occupants of the sheep-cote, but also of the cottage as well. He
was never known to frisk or gambol, or to bark without due cause.

Dandy was the very opposit