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"Das Noel Waby's trap. Nobody else make-um tukpeel stick like dat," he said at last. Then I understood. Noel Waby had gone up river trapping in the spring, and had never come back; nor any word to tell how death met him. I stooped down to examine the trap with greater interest. On the underside of the fall-log I found some long hairs still clinging in the crevices of the rough bark.
Under water he struck out, nor did he come up till he saw the canoe and the bubbling paddles overhead. As he climbed aboard, the Wlli-Waw went into the wind to come about. "Washee-washee!" Grief cried to his boys. "You fella make-um beach quick fella time!" In all shamelessness, he turned his back on the battle and ran for cover.
"Oho!" cried Nares, "you savvy plenty, do you? "I think bimeby make-um reward," replied the cook, with smiling dignity. "Well, you can't say fairer than that," the captain admitted; "and now the reward's offered you'll talk? Speak up then. Suppose you speak true you get reward. See?" "I think long time," replied the Chinaman.
"Bes' keep still; big moose make-um trouble sometime," muttered Noel behind me; and we dropped back silently into the lee of the friendly rock, to watch awhile longer and let the big creature do as she would.
"Oho!" cried Nares, "you savvy plenty, do you? "I think bimeby make-um reward," replied the cook, with smiling dignity. "Well, you can't say fairer than that," the captain admitted, "and now the reward's offered, you'll talk? Speak up, then. Suppose you speak true, you get reward. See?" "I think long time," replied the Chinaman.
"Three rousing cheers!" said Cousin Egbert as we drank once more, and added as an afterthought, "What a beautiful world we live in!" "Vooley-voos make-um bring dinner!" said the Tuttle person to the cabman, who thereupon spoke at length in his native tongue to the waiter.
There was a look of surprise in his face that I had blundered onto a discovery which he had looked for many times in vain, his traps on his back. "Das a portash," he said simply. "A portage! But who made a portage here?" "Well, Musquash he prob'ly make-um first. Den beaver, den h'otter, den everybody in hurry he make-um. You see, river make big bend here.
"My peoples go now," he said. "Me like-um lifle." "When you go Kadiak?" asked Rob. "Maybe seven week, four week, ten nine week all light, all light, all light," said the chief, amiably. "You make-um talk-talk ting. Give me! You give-um lifle now." Rob turned to the other boys. "We'll hold a council," said he. "Now, what do you think is best to do?" The others remained silent for a time.
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