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"We shall see Hec a great man one of these days; I think he has in his own mind brushed, and burned, and logged up all the fine flats and table-land on the plains before now, ay, and cropped it all with wheat, and peas, and Indian corn." "We will have a clearing and a nice field of corn next year, if we live," replied Hector; "that corn that we found in the canoe will be a treasure."
"Poor king!" said Catharine, sighing, "I see that it is better to be poor children, wandering on these plains under God's own care, than to be kings and princes at the mercy of bad and sinful men." "Who told your father all these things, Hec?" said Louis. He was a kind man, and my father loved both him and his son, and grieved not a little when he parted from him."
There is one large thick-shelled mussel that I have found several times with a round hole drilled through the shell, just as if it had been done with a small auger, doubtless the work of some bird with a strong beak." "Do you remember," said Catharine, "the fine pink mussel-shell that Hec picked up in the little corn-field last year?
The sinews of the legs and back they drew out and laid carefully aside for future use. "We shall be glad enough of these strings by-and-by," said careful Hector; "for the summer will soon be at an end, and then we must turn our attention to making ourselves winter clothes and moccasins." "Yes, Hec, and a good warm shanty.
The minstrels were practising a new paean of praise words by the Grand Vizier, music by the High Priest of Hec which they were to render at the next full moon at the banquet of the worshippers of Gowf. The words came clear and distinct through the still air: "Oh, praises let us utter To our most glorious King! It fairly makes you stutter To see him start his swing! Success attend his putter!
At this moment Craven, cornered by Hec Ross and two of the Red Shirts, with Dan hard upon his heels, passed clear across the ice to Hughie. With a swift turn Hughie caught the ball, dodged Jimmie Ben's fierce spring at him, and shot. But even as he shot, Jimmie Ben, recovering his balance, reached him and struck a hard, swinging blow upon his ankle.
"Yes, Hec., and a good warm shanty; these huts of bark and boughs will not do when once the cold weather sets in." "A shanty would soon be put up," said Hector; "for even Kate, wee bit lassie as she is, could give us some help in trimming up the logs. We fear it is peculiar to Canada, although deserving of imitation in all Christian colonies.
Poor Indiana, she must have felt lonely and sad." "I tell you what we will do, Hec, make a log canoe. I found an old battered one lying on the shore, not far from Pine-tree Point. We have an axe and a tomahawk, what should hinder us from making one like it?" "True! we will set about it to-morrow." "I wish it were morning, that we might set to work to cut down a good pine for the purpose."
It was a bad play, for it gave Craven and Thomas their chance. "Follow me close, Thomas," cried the master, meeting the ball and setting off like a whirlwind. Past the little Reds, through the centers, and into the defense line he flashed, followed hard by Thomas. In vain Hec Ross tried to check, Craven was past him like the wind. There remained only Dan and Jimmie Ben.
As the white-bearded High Priest of Hec, who by virtue of his office was generally regarded as leader of the guild, remarked in a glowing speech at an extraordinary meeting of the Priests' Equity Association, he had always set his face against the principle of the Closed Shop hitherto, but there were moments when every thinking man had to admit that enough was sufficient, and it was his opinion that such a moment had now arrived.
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