b'an

Updated: June 4, 2025

"Not more than ten or twelve, I think " Again her grandfather promptly contradicted her: "Mais, mais, je compte b'an qu'il y en a quinze ou seize, Thérèse;" and he went quite glibly over the names of such of his red friends as still hovered around their old home in that vicinity.

Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie - Wau-bun: The Early Day in the Northwest