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Updated: May 28, 2025
But I couldn't let your Ladyship carry sticks for the like o' me. I hope I know me place better. If your Ladyship was to give me a hoosh up wid them? My back's not too bent if only they was to be tied in a bundle." She performed a series of little dips which would have made Lady O'Gara smile at another time. "The sticks are very light," she said. "Supposing we share the burden?
The Netchilliks also kill a few reindeer in this way. In the summer and fall these people catch great quantities of salmon and cow-e-sil-lik, a species of fish peculiar to this country, and in the neighboring hills kill a few musk-oxen. Their main dependence, however, is upon fish from Back's and Harris's rivers.
The player that fails to follow the leader's example becomes "it." On the third turn the leader shouts: "Hats on deck," and he places his cap on First Back's shoulders and goes over without knocking it off. The next player places his cap on top of the leader's and goes over.
My only regret was, that the party proceeded too fast to allow of Mr. Back's halting occasionally, to note the bearings of the points, and delineate the course of the river , without being left behind.
Plate and vast quantities of clothing were found along the route, showing that on leaving the ships the hapless men considered themselves capable of considerable exertion; and as they carried a large amount of powder and shot, they undoubtedly hoped to maintain themselves by means of their guns. In vain did the main body at the mouth of Back's Fish River wait the return of their shipmates.
The grasshoppers, the lizards, distracted her attention and seemed more real to her than poor Ray. On their way to the sand bank where Ray had been carried, Dr. Archie and Mr. Kronborg met the Saxony doctor. He shook hands with them. "Nothing you can do, doctor. I couldn't count the fractures. His back's broken, too. He wouldn't be alive now if he weren't so confoundedly strong, poor chap.
A parlour door within a small entry stood open, and disclosed a child a dwarf a girl a something sitting on a little low old-fashioned arm-chair, which had a kind of little working bench before it. 'I can't get up, said the child, 'because my back's bad, and my legs are queer. But I'm the person of the house. 'Who else is at home? asked Charley Hexam, staring.
"I was jest tellin' her about what a place Benton is," replied Fresno. "Allie, is that true?" queried Durade, sharply. "Yes," she replied. "Fresno, I did not like your looks." "Boss, if you don't like 'em you know what you can do," rejoined Fresno, impudently, and he lounged out of the room. "Allie, these men are all bad," said Durade. "You must avoid them when my back's turned.
It is not discreditable to Back's survey that an error should be made in tracing the course of the river, for it is probable that bad weather hid the sun from his observation at that portion of the river where he could travel very swiftly; while upon our return trip we were moving along this river by stages of not more than from five to nine miles a day.
"The main thing I remember in the transaction was the stone he set up between the old man and himself on the range. 'The Lord watch between thee and me, you know, it had on it. That's a mighty good motto yet for a sheepherder to front around where his boss can read it. A man's got to have somebody to keep an eye on a sheepman when his back's turned, even today."
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