delight of the missionary, who at once set himself to teaching them to
pray in Latin. As the season grew milder, the number of his scholars
increased; for, when parties of Indians encamped in the neighborhood,
he would take his stand at the door, and, like Xavier at Goa, ring a
bell. At this, a score of children would gather around him; and he,
leading them into the refectory, which served as his school-room, taught
them to repeat after him the Pater, Aye, and Credo, expounded the mystery
of the Trinity, showed them the sign of the cross, and made them repeat
an Indian prayer, the joint composition of Pierre and himself; then
followed the catechism, the lesson closing with singing the Pater Noster,
translated by the missionary into Algonquin rhymes; and when all was over,
he rewarded each of his pupils with a porringer of peas, to insure their
attendance at his next bell-ringing.

[ "I'ay commence a appeller quelques enfans auec vne petite clochette.
La premiere fois i'en auois six, puis douze, puis quinze, puis vingt et
davantage; ie leur fais dire le Pater, Aue, et Credo, etc. . . . .
Nous finissons par le Pater Noster, que i'ay compose quasi en rimes en
leur langue, que ie leur fais chanter: et pour derniere conclusion,
ie leur fais donner chacun vne escuellee de pois, qu'ils mangent de bon
appetit," etc.--Le Jeune, Relation, 1633, 23. ]

It was the end of May, when the priests one morning heard the sound of
cannon from the fort, and were gladdened by the tidings that Samuel de
Champlain had arrived to resume command at Quebec, bringing with him four
more Jesuits,--Brebeuf, Masse, Daniel, and Davost. [ See "Pioneers of
France." ] Brebeuf, from the first, turned his eyes towards the distant
land of the Hurons,--a field of labor full of peril, but rich in hope and
promise. Le Jeune's duties as Superior restrained him from wanderings so
remote. His apostleship must be limited, for a time, to the vagabond