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An old Delaware woman, of some three hundred pounds' weight, sat in the porch of a little log-house close to the water, and a very pretty half-breed girl was engaged, under her superintendence, in feeding a large flock of turkeys that were fluttering and gobbling about the door.
Well, I'm " He stopped to stare at Billy's forehead, where there was a stain of blood. "Hurt?" he demanded, sharply. "Was it that damned half-breed?" Billy was gripping his hands now. Over near the stove, still kneeling before the closed door, he saw the dark face of an Indian turned toward him. "It was Couchée," he said. "He hit me with the butt of his whip, and I've had funny spells ever since.
And, now that Tom looked a second time he saw that the man was not as black as the other drivers not an honest, dark-skinned black but more of a sickly yellow, like a treacherous half-breed. "Who is he?" asked Tom, for the man in question was just then tightening a girth and could not hear him. "I know not, senor. He come to me when I am hiring the others, and he say he is a good driver.
Eli, believing in the first instant that Indian Jake had fallen as the result of the shot, was taken wholly by surprise. He stood dazed and dumb with the smoking rifle in his hand. He did not at once realize that the half-breed had him covered. His brain did not work as rapidly as Indian Jake's.
Here again I owed my preservation to an acquaintance, to whom I had rendered some service in the practice of my profession. A Métis, or half-breed, who had quickly pushed me into the entry of a house, and covered me with his body, said: "Stir not, Doctor Pablo!"
Fred told me he had halted as soon as he was able, not on my account only, but because he, too, had had a severe fall, and was suffering great pain from a bruised knee. Here is an ordinary example of buffalo shooting: 'JULY 2ND. Fresh meat much wanted. With Jim the half-breed to the hills. No sooner on high ground than we sighted game.
His black imagination instantly conceived the worst that Louise might do. It was not in him ever to have the decent alternative. He questioned the half-breed woman closely; he savagely interrogated the Chinaman; and then he declared that they lied to him, that they knew more than they said; and when he was unable to bear it any longer, he mounted his horse and galloped over to Slow Down Ranch.
Appleton paused and glanced curiously from the face of the half-breed to the still form upon the bunk, and the other continued: "It is strange I do not know but he told it to Jeanne one day that, in the great city of the white man is a girl he loves. He used to drink much whisky, and for that reason she sent him from her and now he drinks no whisky even though this girl has married another."
Jeorling, though you have a good deal to do with it, you pay, and pay well, while this crazy fellow, Dirk Peters, persists in asserting that his poor Pym is still living his poor Pym who was drowned, or frozen, or crushed killed, anyhow, one way or another, eleven years ago!” So completely was this my own belief that I never discussed the subject with the half-breed. “You see, Mr.
In the morning a miserable northeaster was blowing a heavy fall of snow over the country, and the Factor offered to show me the fur-loft where the clerk and a few half-breed men-servants were folding and packing furs.
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