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When John Fox came into a country where whisky freezes solid and may be used as a paper-weight for a large part of the year, he came without the ideals and illusions that usually hamper1 the progress of more delicately nurtured2 adventurers. Born and reared on the frontier fringe of the United States, he took with him into Canada a primitive3 cast of mind, an elemental simplicity4 and grip on things, as it were, that insured him immediate5 success in his new career. From a mere6 servant of the Hudson Bay Company, driving a paddle with the voyageurs and carrying goods on his back across the portages, he swiftly rose to a Factorship and took charge of a trading post at Fort Angelus.
Here, because of his elemental simplicity, he took to himself a native wife, and, by reason of the connubial7 bliss8 that followed, he escaped the unrest and vain longings9 that curse the days of more fastidious men, spoil their work, and conquer them in the end. He lived contentedly10, was at single purposes with the business he was set there to do, and achieved a brilliant record in the service of the Company. About this time his wife died, was claimed by her people, and buried with savage11 circumstance in a tin trunk in the top of a tree.
Two sons she had borne him, and when the Company promoted him, he journeyed with them still deeper into the vastness of the North-West Territory to a place called Sin Rock, where he took charge of a new post in a more important fur field. Here he spent several lonely and depressing months,
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meditated
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goodwill
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repletion
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raven
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brass
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wail
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