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The Highland leader met with misfortune. On July 26th Fraser writes: "Lieut. Alexander Fraser, Junior, returned to camp from the detachment which marched with the Col. on the 24th. He brings news of the Colonel's having been wounded in the thigh, by an unlucky shot from a small party of Canadians who lay in ambush and fired on the detachment out of a bush, and then retired.
Dillon, very ill at ease, shook hands with the Texan, and was understood to say that he was glad to see him. "Then you don't look it, dad," Arlie told him, with a gleam of vexed laughter. Her father turned reproachfully upon her. "Now, honey, yo' done wrong to say that. Yo' know Mr. Fraser is welcome to stay in my house long as he wants. I'm proud to have him stay.
Fraser shook his head mournfully. "He can't come," he said, in a low voice; "he had a bad foot night before last he was standing on the ship's side when he lost his hold " He broke off and eyed the girl nervously, "and fell overboard," he concluded. Poppy Tyrell gave a faint cry and, springing to her feet, stood with her hand on the back of her chair regarding him.
The beauty and majesty of its waters, and the variety and grandeur of the scenery through which it flows, lead many to regard it as the most interesting of all the great rivers of the continent, notwithstanding the claims of the other members of the family to which it belongs and which nobody can measure the Fraser, McKenzie, Saskatchewan, the Missouri, Yellowstone, Platte, and the Colorado, with their glacier and geyser fountains, their famous canyons, lakes, forests, and vast flowery prairies and plains.
He dared not let Fraser go with his life, for he knew that, sooner or later, the ranger would run him to earth, and drag him back to the punishment that was awaiting him in the South. Nor did he want to shoulder the responsibility of murdering this man before five witnesses. Came the sound of running footsteps. "What's that?" asked Slim nervously. "Where are you, Steve?" called a voice.
Fraser, and had come away intensely interested from a medical point of view, and very much puzzled. At length he shut up his books with a sigh for, like most books, though full of generalities, they did not tell him much and went to bed.
Shall the disciple be above his master? especially when that disciple was but too inconsistent, and gave occasion to the uncircumcised to blaspheme? But Cayley, after a few years, refutes triumphantly Hume's silly slanders. He is a stupid writer: but he has sense enough, being patient, honest, and loving, to do that. Mr. Fraser Tytler shovels away a little more of the dirt-heap; Mr.
"I was only having a look round," Dick answered, with a wink at Jerry; "I thought I'd do a little prospecting on my own." "Why didn't you tell me, you beast?" Jerry asked, linking his arm into Dick's affectionately. Dick answered by a friendly punch on the head. "Who is Mr. Fraser?" he asked Hugh, settling himself in his place on the rail. "He is a man we know," Hugh replied rather vaguely.
"I have never yet," ran the statement, "placed my own ambitions before the wishes of my party; and if, when the Democrats of Fraser County meet to choose a candidate for state senator, they are not disposed to renominate me for a seat which I have held for twelve years, I shall gladly resign to another and give my loyal support to the candidate of their choice."
And in return for these sugars, coffee, and other tropical productions may be obtained at the Sandwich Islands. Advantages that in time must become of immense importance. Those districts of British America west of the lakes which by soil and climate are suitable for settlement, may be thus enumerated: Vancouver's Island 16,200 square miles. Fraser and Thomson Rivers 60,000 ditto
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