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As she passed back into the bungalow her heart fluttered within her like the wings of a bird mounting upwards in the dawning. The sun had risen upon the desert. "Tommy says his name is Sprinter; but Uncle St. Bernard calls him Whisky. I wonder which is the prettiest," said Tessa. "I should call him Whisky out of compliment to Uncle St. Bernard," said Mrs. Ralston.
'Next evening I got disgusted with myself, and started to walk home. I'd lost my hat, so Peter Anderson lent me an old one of his, that he'd worn on Ballarat he said: it was a hard, straw, flat, broad-brimmed affair, and fitted my headache pretty tight. Peter gave me a small flask of whisky to help me home.
He held out to them visions of vast wealth and they thought of the whisky they could buy it was dear, since there was a law that it must not be sold to natives, and so it cost them double what the white man had to pay for it they thought of the great sandal-wood boxes in which they kept their treasures, and the scented soap and potted salmon, the luxuries for which the Kanaka will sell his soul; so that when the administrator sent for them and told them he wanted a road made from their village to a certain point along the coast and offered them twenty pounds, they asked him a hundred.
Casey felt sympathetic qualms in his own stomach just from watching the performance, but he was talking for a gold mine and he did not stop. "You know Willow Pete?" he asked garrulously. "Big, tall man. Drinks whisky all the time. Willow Pete found a gold mine two moons ago. He's rich now. Got a big barrel of whisky.
"I happen to be interested just at present in pickin' up certain street-railway stocks on 'change. I'll tell you about them later. Won't you have somethin' to drink? It's a cold morning." "No, thanks; I never drink." "Never? That's a hard word when it comes to whisky. Well, no matter. It's a good rule. My boys don't touch anything, and I'm glad of it.
"I hope not; I don't think it will without whisky to help it along," said Frisbie, with another apologetic side glance for Miss Adair. "Yes; but the whisky isn't lacking there's Pete Garcia and his stock of battle, murder and sudden death at Paint Rock, a short half-mile from Riley's," Ford broke in. Frisbie's smile, helped out by the grime and the coal dust, was triumphantly demoniacal.
"You can tell them they shall never get it so long as we can prevent them;" but the next moment the poor Wazir, to Gerôme's delight, had measured his length on the ground. Either the night was very dark, or the whisky very strong; a tent-rope had avenged the taunt levelled at my companion's countrymen.
Mills, this morning, and he spoke of how thankful I ought to be he had just passed my bayou field and I told him that I would not only assert my gratitude but would prove it with a substantial donation to the church at the end of the season." In the glance which she gave him there was refined and gentle contempt; and then she looked down upon the decanter of whisky.
There were the provisions a couple of small loaves, a dozen tins, and a bottle of whisky. I made the best pack I could of them in my waterproof, swung it on my stick, and started back, thinking that I must be very like the picture of Christian on the title-page of Pilgrim's Progress. I was liker Christian before I reached my destination Christian after he had got up the Hill Difficulty.
"Me drink," the other insisted, and again Bill shook his head. The Indian seemed puzzled. "No like?" he asked. "No like," repeated Bill, and smiled grimly. Wabishke regarded him in wondering silence. In his life he had seen many strange things, but never a thing like this a white man who of his own choice drank spring-water from a fish-can and poured good whisky upon his feet!
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