Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1880

pg 515       early in the morning to fit up the venerable old mission house.  
             They went to their task with a will; and the fourth night they all 
             slept deliciously in their new lodging, more precious in fact to 
             each one of them than any palace in the New World could have been.
             By degree all their real wants were successively supplied: not a 
             complaint nor a murmur nor even a regret was heard in the little 
             band through that trying memorable winter:  they were happy as 
             they never were before.  Devotedness knows no fatigue or 
             privations; and where true love finds labor, even that labor if 
             loved, said St. Augustin fifteen hundred years ago.
                  At times they were indeed richly repaid, as the following 
             little anecdote or real occurrence will prove.
                  In his frequent visits to his beloved Indians at Pokagan, 
             Michigan, Father Sorin one day heard of another settlement of 
             Pottawatomies, ninety miles east, in Indiana, who had never been