Old Noel, a micmac hunter, tells me that both wildcat and lynx, whose cunning is generally the cunning of stupidity, have discovered a remarkable way of catching fish.
"A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories"
William Long
A huge pile of decoys stood near, of which about two dozen were of wood, such as the micmac Indian whittles out with his curved waghon, or single-handed draw-knife, in the long winter evenings.
"Adrift in the Ice-Fields"
Charles W. Hall
Day's march of the savages and night's rest on the green shores, mummying fires in the big tepee and the captives lying in the sleep of exhaustion with one guard pacing the lodge opening,-day's pursuit of the lone canoe, brief landings for tea made at a micmac fire, scanning of lake and river and forest, night's unceasing forging ahead with Maren asleep in the prow, her head on Dupre's blanket.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe