The history of the lady's fur coat is, it one thinks of it, fall of strange con-trests. A wild crestare of the Can-adion forests, s silent Indian trapper and his wile, a lonely H. 5, Ca. trader, the half-breed paddlers of a north" canoe, the hands of the Hudson Bay steamer in the ice-floes off Ungavs, the employees of " British Railway company, the operatives of a London farrier—all these may have played a part in the making of the coat before it can appear in the window of shop in Bond Street, or on the back of some proud lady of St. Jamee's. The far trade in one of the few departments of modera
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