Excerpt from Penitentiary PostPhil charged the item to extension of trade, making a place for it in his report blank. He was particularly pleased with himself, for he had given a new twist to an old trick of fur land, that land where two hundred years of precedent have devel oped a code of ethics entirely in keeping with the harshness and the loneliness of the land itself.This little business out of the way and the Indians properly impressed with the reprehensible ness of their disaffection, Phil began to look for ward to the annual New Year's gathering of post managers. His was the most distant post of the district and he would have to start December first. The last week in November an epidemic of hydrophobia wiped out all the dogs in his yard and he was forced to settle down to an eventless and mailless winter.The winter passed, as those dark, cold, inter minable winters have passed with countless managers of isolated Hudson's Bay Company posts for more than two hundred years, and summer brought with it the triumphant journey of the fur-laden brigade. For Phil's three York boats would be laden as never before in the history of the post.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.