auer said he might demonstrate his neutrality on the subject by lecturing in a referee jersey.

The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice — of blood, sweat and tears — will lead them to glory.

Campbell stuck out his hand. He got a slap in theface. Retired Red Wings tough guy Jimmy Orlando had spotted thefan heading toward Campbell and bounded from his seat inpursuit. An instant after the slap, Orlando spun the fan aroundand socked him in the jaw, scattering teeth like jujubes. Therewere shouts, invective, a rumbling in the Forum. The tear gascame 30 seconds later.

three Stanley Cups and had scored 50 goals in 50 games,

The Babe Ruth of hockey,”

Richard lowered his head and neck to buttress himself for the collision then straightened,

For five minutes, the tempest rages. The crowd, on its feet, cannot believe the madness before them. They’ve seen fights over the Garden’s past three decades in the days when players swung their sticks and fists more liberally, but nothing like this, nothing as determined and wild.

Since then, larger thinkers on the Quebec scene have argued whether this was the beginning of Quebec's Quiet Revolution

No. 9 had already previously walloped a referee.

I am glad that I saw you, for I shall be passing up the river near your place in two or three weeks, when the ice goes out

Twenty-five cents!" one young man bid chaffingly. "Fifty cents!" "A dollar!"

"I tell you that we shall have a lean year," asserted one old fellow, "the frost got in before the last snows fell."

onsieur the governor sent his butler in the morning, to bring us two bottles of Spanish wine, a Turkey, and an Agnus dei;

The winter's Work was to pile sand for building, and wood for heating.

They overwhelm him with arrow and gun shots, and throw his naked corpse into the flames which are consuming the church,

Another little girl named Catherine had often been wayward about receiving instruction, and so had not been rewarded like the others. Some days afterward, [page 23] one of her companions brought her to one of our Fathers, giving him to understand that she was quite disposed to learn; but, when it came to the point, she acted as usual. The little girl who had brought her became annoyed, and used all her little natural rhetoric to make her open her lips and to get her to speak,—sometimes using threats, sometimes holding out a reward from me if she spoke properly; she was so earnest that she succeeded, to the great satisfaction of those of our Fathers who were listening to her.

Their great hope is in the conversion of the children, who, they report, show surprising aptitude and willingness to learn the doctrines of the Christian faith; and, through them, many parents have been reached.