The Skeleton On Round Island: From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899

Catherwood, Mary Hartwell · 1902

_On the 15th day of March, 1897, Ignace Pelott died at Mackinac Island, aged ninety-three years._ _The old quarter-breed, son of a half breed Chippewa mother and French father, took with him into silence much wilderness lore of the Northwest. He was full of stories when warmed to recital, though at the beginning of a talk his gentle eyes dwelt on the listener with anxiety, and he tapped his forehead--“So many things gone from there!” His habit of saying “Oh God, yes,” or “Oh God, no,” was not in the least irreverent, but simply his mild way of using island English._…

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