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64 Cut word happily for him as my accident did with me, and as his life was intimately connected with mine up to this time I will devote the next chapter or two to him. The sequel will, however, show that I have not used the word "happily" here exactly in its true sense, for by the accident his true happiness was secured; that happiness which the world can neither give nor take away.

                                                                 Chapter IV
                                                        The story of John Tully   
  If my reader will take the map of North America, and spread it before him, and search for a place called Pembina, he will find it situated on the Red river of the North, a stream running due north and emptying itself into lake Winnepeg. The town, or rather the plan of the town, is a latitude 49° 10' and longitude 97. 
  It is a cold and dreary waste, unfit for the dwelling of civilized man, unless he can be content to subsist upon the spoils of the chase and fish of the river. Yet at this place a powerful Scotch nobleman once endeavored to plant a colony; as the government of Great Britain had granted him a patent for a large tract of land in the vicinity; by which he endeavored to increase his wealth by imposing upon the honest but simple Swiss peasantry.

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