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"Was it a long swim?" asked a sceptical sailor, who was one of the emigrants. "How? what mean you?" demanded La Certe, sternly. "I only want to know if she took long to swim ashore out o' that pool," said the sceptic, simply. La Certe cast on him a glance of suspicion, and replied that his mother had found no difficulty in getting out of the pool.
"Keep back, and let him have air," said the chief, who was doing his best, according to his knowledge, to resuscitate Dan. Presently La Certe arrived, panting. "O! he is gone! My comrade, my friend, is dead!" he exclaimed, clenching his hands, and gazing at the pale, bruised face. "You are wrong," exclaimed the chief, testily. "Out of the way, man! See! his eyelids quiver."
"'Quum primum pavido custos mihi purpura cernet, that passage on friendship which gushes out so livingly from the stern heart of the satirist. And when old complimented me on my verses, my eye sought yours. Verily, I now say as then, "'Nescio quod, certe est quod me tibi temperet astrum."
"Well, my friend," said La Certe, "fish is very scarce just now, but you may have five goldeyes for your five shillings." "O! that is too much," remonstrated the Switzer. "No, no," interrupted the half-breed, amiably, "by no means but if you really think it too much fish for the money I will give you four goldeyes!" "Come, you know I don't mean that," returned the other, with a cynical smile.
"It will never be more peaceable as long as there are two rival companies fighting for the furs," said Davidson; "but there's worse than that goin' on, for some of the Indians, it seems, are mad at the agreement made between them and Lord Selkirk." "Wow! that iss a peety. Where heard ye that?" "I heard it from La Certe, whose wife Slowfoot, you know, is a Cree Indian.
Of course, Slowfoot was with him amiable, meek, and silent as ever. And so was Baby La Certe, a five-year-old by that time, and obviously a girl with a stronger penchant than ever for tobacco! "The buffalo have been found already," said Dechamp to Dan Davidson, as the latter rode into camp at the head of his party.
ALIQUID AD TE: 'some work dedicated to you'; so below, 3; cf. also Lael. 4 ut de amicitia scriberem aliquid; ib. Catone maiore qui est scriptus ad te de senectute; Div. 2, 3 liber is quem ad nostrum Atticum de senectute misimus. AUT ... AUT CERTE: so often in Cic.; certe, 'at any rate'. SENECTUTIS: at the time the words were written Cic. was 62 years old, Atticus three years older.
"You've come to beg, borrow, or steal, no doubt," said Cloudbrow, who was worthy of his nickname, for he was as short of temper as Duncan senior. No, La Certe had come to do none of these things, he said, with a conciliatory smile.
But Theodorus Gaza has been unjust in translating him, by foisting in, Quo in loco pugnare cum Pygmæis dicuntur, whereas there is nothing in the Text that warrants it: As likewise, where he expresses the little Stature of the Pygmies and the Horses, there Gaza has rendered it, Sed certè Genus tum Hominum, tum etiam Equorum pusillum.
Commercially speaking, however, they had some ground for satisfaction; for at that time the ordinary price of a catfish, which is a little larger than a haddock, was threepence. Awakening the juvenile La Certe to the blissful realisation that a good "square" meal was pending, Slowfoot ordered it to fill and light the pipe for the father, while she set about preparing the fish for supper.
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