not so far to God! De school is over all de time,’ he say. And dat is only everything of poor Mathurin. He is dead.

"When de Curé lay him down, after he make de Sign upon him, he kiss his face and say: ‘Mathurin, now you are a priest unto God.’"

That was Angèle Rouvier’s story of Mathurin, the Master of the School, for whom the women and the children pray in the parish of Pontiac, though the school has been dismissed these hundred years and more.