babiche-roped

Updated: May 27, 2025

Behind them watching, always watching followed the bronze-faced stranger in his close-drawn hood. For an hour the men of Lac Bain gathered close-wedged about the log platform on which stood Henri Paquette and his Indian helper. Behind the men were the women and children, and through the cordon there ran a babiche-roped pathway along which the dogs were brought.

James Oliver Curwood - Back to God's Country and Other Stories