Regis Indians of Northern
New York. At the moment of the arrival of our friends,
they were sending out two of their number to find how
they might best distribute thus their extra provender.
These two gladly joined in the little procession, and
all went together to the corner of Quincy Street and
Curtis Avenue. There a similar revelation was made, only
there was some difficulty at first in any real mutual
understanding. For here they met a dozen, more or less,
of French Canadians. These gentlemen had left their
wives and their children in the province of Quebec, and,
finding themselves in Boston, had taken possession of the
polling-booth, where they were living much more
comfortably than they would have lived at home.
They too had been well provided for Thanksgiving, both by
their friends at home and by their employers, and had
been questioning as to the distribution which they could
make of their supplies. Reinforced by four of their
number, the delegation in search of hungry people was
increased to fourteen in number, and with a certain
curiosity, it must be confessed, they went together to
try their respective keys on No. 311.
Opening this without so much as knocking at the door
to know if here they might not provide the "annex" or
"tender" which they wished to establish, they found, it
must be confessed without any amazement or amusement, a
company of Italians under the charge of one Antonio Fero,
who had also worked out the problem of cheap lodgings,
and had established themselves for some weeks here.
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