Part 10 (1/2)
”Sure t'ing! I'rub in my canoe, w'en I see dis feller on de bank, walkin' lak' he's in beeg horry 'Ba Gar!' I say, 'dere's oin' so fast he'll o tearin' back, wavin' hees arms lak' he's callin' me, till he fall down Wen I paddle close up, I don' know 'ieder inter Wat you t'ink of dat?”
”I saw a fellow killed that way at Holy Cross,” interpolated the trader
”'hello,' I say, 'w'at's de'bout 'im dat look familiar Hees face she's all swell' up an' bleedin' lak' raw meat” The Frenchman curled his upper lip back from his teeth and shook his head at the reht! Dem fly is drive 'i red sponge, an' hees eye are close up tight”
”He died before you got hiood man, too Some tam' if I ever have bad eneoin' turn 'i”
”Holy Mackinaw!” ejaculated Gale ”Who'd ever think of that? Why, that's worse than dropping water on his skull till he goes crazy, like them China I know Dat's w'y I lak' to geeve it to htin' the little devils till they stung you crazy and pizened your eyes shut!”
Gale fell to considering this, while Poleon filled his pipe, and, raising his veil, undertook to smoke The pests proved too nuosh!+ Dey're hongry!”
”It will be all right e get out of the woods,” said the elder lad for havin' Necia hoain, eh?” ventured the other after a while, unable to avoid any longer the subject upperh with her schooling”
”She's gettin' purty beeg gal now”
”That's right”
”By-an'-by she's goin' marry on some feller--w'at?”
”I suppose so She ain't the kind to stay single”
”Ha! Dat's right, too Mebbe you don' care if she does get ets a ht”
”Wal! Wal! Dere's no trouble 'bout dat,” exclaimed Doret, fervently
”No ood an' too purty for have bad husban'”
”She is, is she?” Gale turned on hilare in his eyes
”The about a good girl that attracts a bad oes double, too--the good h but what he can catch a good woman, and a decent man usually draws a critter that looks like a sled and acts like a timber wolf”
”Necia wouldn't marry on no bad man,” said Doret, positively
”No?” said Gale ”Let irl once that was just as good and pure as Necia, and just as pretty, too--yes, and a thousand tihed Doret, sceptically
”She was an Eastern girl, and she come West where men were different to what she'd been used to Those were early days, and it was a new country, where a person didn't know h there were a heap of girls thereabouts, they were the kind you'll always find in such communities, while this one was plumb different Man! Man! But she was different She was a WOMAN!