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That's a grand coup if ever I saw one," and so, notwithstanding Guy's proposal to "leave it to Caleb," Sam got his grand Eagle feather as Axeman A1 of the Sanger Indians. The Owls and The Night School One night Sam was taking a last look at the stars before turning in. A Horned Owl had been hooting not far away. "Hoo hohoo-hoho hoooooo."
"Yes," said the axeman gravely. "Still, your father made a little mistake. I'm Alton of Somasco." Then he turned and moved forward with a gesture that was almost courtly. "You are very welcome to this poor house of mine," he said.
To get a good foundation was the most important matter, but the brush from the trees would supply the material for that; and within an hour, brush began to arrive, dragged from the pommels of saddles, and was piled into the stream. About this time a call went out for a volunteer who could drive oxen, for the darky was too good an axeman to be recalled.
It must be admitted that there are one or two kinds of wandering Englishmen, who would not have found them particularly friendly, but the little quiet man with the twinkling eyes was very much at home with them. He had been endued with the gift of comprehension, and rock-cutter and axeman opened their minds to him.
The axeman came back to say there were no signs of any wapiti, though the little Bush deer were evidently about, and it was decided to try for one that night with the pitlight, a mode of shooting now and then adopted when the deer are shy. They ate their supper, and afterwards lay down with their blankets rolled about them, for it grew very cold as darkness crept up the valley.
And at night, weary in body, Nancy still had time, lying in the amply, if crudely blanketed bed provided for her in some lumber-built shanty, to contemplate the lives of this strangely assorted race. She knew the pay of the forest men, from the haulier to the princely axeman and river-jack. She had seen their food, and their dwelling accommodation.
Benoit let his eye run critically over the line of his person. "Bon! Dat's true, for sure. In tree, four mont I mak de beeg spark on de girl, me." "You bet, Benny!" cried the axeman. "You'll break 'em all up." "Sure ting!" cried Benny, catching up a coal for his pipe. "By by, Cameron. Au revoir. I go for tak some more slice from my porsch." "Good-bye, Benny," cried Cameron.
And in the end he taught me patiently, until, one day, he said: "Now do you teach me to use your long spear. I can teach you no more axe play than you know. Some day you will meet an axeman face to face, and will find out what you know. Then, if I have taught you ill, say naught; but if well, then say 'Jarl Lodbrok taught me'."
Then the tension slackened, and the injured man drew in his breath with a gasp, while Okanagan rose to one knee with great drops of sweat upon his face. "You got it?" said Alton in a low, strained voice, and nodded when the axeman answered him. "No," he said, a trifle huskily. "I'm going to try again. Lift him over on his side, Charley."
A happy thought struck me all of a sudden, as a reminiscence of a similar case that I had seen in years gone by came back in full vigour. "Give me a tomahawk," I said. One was produced in a minute from under the stern-sheets. Meanwhile I had got out a couple of the oars. "Now, Jim, you're the best axeman, off with them here!"
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