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CHAPTER FIFTEEN
MAry MULLIGAN TAKES A JOB

Ten days later they reached Fort George.
But it was a sorry-looking company that
stepped ashore from the raft and moved in a
ragged procession towards the small, walled,
flag-topped fort of the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Dogs barked as they drew near, doors were
thrown open and men ran out to meet them,
the staff of the company shouting out amazed
greetings while Indians wrapped in red and
brown blankets looked on stolidly smoking but
inwardly surprised at what they saw. Three
rafts had already passed that way. This was
the fourth, but as snow and heavy frosts had
fallen they had almost given up looking for it
to get through. Other stragglers were still
further behind.

In the front of those now arriving they saw
a diminutive woman leading by the hand a
little girl: the Little General and Betty. Bring-
ing up the rear were two who carried between

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