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Before I go out shoutin' about progress I had better be sure that my own bizness is on a good footin'. I generally find that sich people spend too much time gaddin' about instid of attendin' to their own home affairs." And thus Farrington talked for over an hour. He wandered off into all kinds of subjects, made jokes at which the boys laughed, and told funny stories.

Then the Indian came swiftly back on the trail, peering about with hawk eyes to see the effect of his shot. "By cosh! miss um dat time. Mus' be powder no good." Then, as he read the plain record in the snow, "One, by cosh! two hwulf, lil fool hwulf, follow my footin'. Mus' be more, come soon pretty quick now; else he don' howl dat way. Guess mebbe ol' Injun better stay in house nights."

You lads better be startin' for Deer Harbour in the marnin'. You'll be reachin' Pinch-In Tickle by noon, whatever, with the fine footin' for the dogs, and Deer Harbour by night. Comin' back the next day you can bide the night at Pinch-In Tickle, and fetch back the fishin' gear that needs mendin', so 'twill be here to work on when they's time to work on un."

"Didn't I hear you just come up in a car?" "A fellow gave me a lift from the cross-roads." "I see. My name is Jones, Putnam Jones. I run this place. My father an' grandfather run it before me. Glad to meet you, Mr. Barnes. We used to have a hostler here named Barnes. What's your idea fer footin' it this time o' the year?" "I do something like this every spring.

Here, Amos, take hold o' me. And he give Amos a jerk that nearly made Brother Gyardner lose his footin', and him and Amos waded up to the shore and left Brother Gyardner standin' there in the middle o' the creek lookin' like he'd lost his job. "Well, that put a stop to the singin' and the shoutin', and the way folks laughed was scandalous.

"I were seein' some footin' o' foxes on the mesh," he explained. "I'm thinkin' we'll set the traps, and we might get a fox. Dad would be wonderful glad and we gets a fox. There's a chance we might get a silver, or a cross, whatever." "That would be great!" exclaimed Charley. "And can't we set other traps?" "Aye, when I gets everything fixed up about home we'll set some marten traps too.

'It fleys folk fine an' stirs up their conscience graund. I aince thocht I caught a keek o' "Parcy" mysel', but I wasna muckle gliffed, for though I ken fine I'm a sinner, I've naethin' particular on my conscience. 'Mind ye, I dinna ken whether 'twas a wraith I saw or no for I'd been first footin', ye ken, an' maybe I had a wee drappie i' my e'e.

"You don't think it's goin' to work?" Drew asked Kirby. The Texan shrugged. "Maybe, only hosses don't think like men. An' a lotta hosses don't take kindly to gittin' wheah theah ain't no footin'. Me, I want to see a little more, 'fore I roll out " Kirby's misgivings were amply justified. For that first voyage was doomed to a tragic and speedy end.

The air breathed a mystery that they could not fathom. Their hearts were weighted with a nameless dread. Their pace never once slackened and not a word was spoken until after several hours the first tilt came suddenly into view, when Dick said laconically: "No smoke. He's not here." "An' no signs o' his bein' on th' trail since th' storm," added Ed. "No footin' t' mark un at all," assented Dick.

'Twas now hand to hand, fist to fist, one for you and one for me; you found a Frenchman and stuck to him till you finished him off, or he finished you, as the case might be, in a manner of speakin'. Well, I found one lanky chap he was number four that night and all in ten minutes, as it were, I jabbed a pike at him, and missed, for it was hard to keep footin' on the wet deck, though the wet was not Hugli water; thick as it is, this was thicker and he fired a pistol at me by way of thank you.