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Mission the primitive little machine and accessories
he had used in his pre-ordination days, and had, at
great expense in which his Indians generously helped,
special type cast in Montreal according to the models
he sent to the foundry.’

He at first issued little pamphlets of a religious
nature, which opened the eyes of the natives to the
possibilities offered by the new pedagogic device.
Then he printed a real book of one hundred and forty-
four pages, namely, a Primer with graduated readings.
Nay, he even published, always with the new signs, a
monthly review which gave the chief news of the new
and of the old worlds, related the life of a prominent
historical personage, furnished stories and_ useful
information, mostly secular, answered the questions
of his subscribers, in a word, treated de omni re scibili
et de quibusdam aliis.*

This entailed much extra work for the missionary,
who was his own editor, type-setter, proof-reader and
pressman; but what was it that Father Morice de-
lighted in if not work?

Then, with very limited fonts of common type, he
even issued for the benefit of future missionaries and
others a little book entitled Le Petit Catéchisme a l’usage
des Sauvages Porteurs, which was much more than its
title would indicate: a religious work with native texts
and translations, which he struck off his little press as
early as 1891. Owing to a most unfortunate circum-
stance which will have to be related in our chapter on
“Trials,” there are now only two copies of this one

’ The accompanying photographic reproduction of the whole Sylla-
bary will facilitate the understanding of our remarks. As to the matrices
of that type, they still belong by right to the inventor, but we fear it
would be rather hard to locate them to-day, though it is known that they

were made by the Dominion Type Founding Co.
4 Of any thing that can be learnt and a few others.