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"Yes," said Moise, "we'll show those boy how the voyageur ron the rapeed." "One thing I want to say to you young gentlemen," resumed Alex, "not to alarm you, but to teach you how to travel. If by any accident the boat should upset, hang to the boat and don't try to swim. The current will be very apt to sweep you on through to some place where you can get a footing.
"Only I'll rather go downheel as upheel, me always I'll rather ron the rapeed than track the boat up the rapeed on the bank. Well, en roulant, eh, M'sieu Alex?" "Roulant!" answered Alex, briefly. Moise, setting his paddle into the water with a great sweep, began once more the old canoe song. "Le fils du roi s'en va chassant En roulant, ma boule! Avec son grand fusil d'argent En roulant, ma boule!"
His gray shirt might have been of any nationality, so that on the whole he made quite a passable Frenchman. While they waited for darkness he paraded the trench, shrugging his shoulders, and gesticulating. "Bon joor, mays ong-fong," he remarked with a careless hand-wave. "Hey, gar-song! Donney-moi du pang eh du beurre, si voo play and donnay-moi swoy-song cans rapeed exploseef!
"Those were Frenchman words," said Moise. "Parle Pas means 'no speak. He's a quiet rapeed. S'pose you'll ron on the river there, an' smoke a pipe, an' talk, an' not think of nothing. All at once, Boum! You'll been in those rapeed, an' he'll not said a word to you!" "Well," said Rob, "the traders used to run them somehow, didn't they?"
We could very possibly even get one of these boats through if we were obliged to, but there is no use taking any risk. We can line down through the worst of it, or even run the boat ashore if we like." "Me, I'll rather ron the rapeed than walk on the bank with boat," said Moise. "Never mind, Moise," said Alex, "we'll not have to walk far with her.
I'm thinking we'd have our own troubles getting down there in boats as small as these. In a deep river which is very fast, and which has a rough bottom, all sorts of unaccountable waves and swells will come up from below, just when you don't expect them." "These rapeed in here, she'll been all right," said Moise. "No trouble to ron heem."
"I don't like the look of this river down there," said Jesse, stepping to the point of the bar, and gazing down the stream up which came the sullen roar of heavy rapids. "Those rapeed, she'll been all right," said Moise. "Never fear, we go through heem all right. To-morrow, two, three, day we'll go through those rapeed like the bird!"
"My onkle, she'll always ron those rapeed," said he. "S'pose I'll tell heem I'll walk aroun', he'll laugh on me, yes!" "That's all right, Moise," said Rob; "your uncle isn't here, and for one, I'm glad we took it easy coming through here. That's rough water either way you look at it, up-stream or down.
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