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A beeg man will neffer show himself in small things, but when he will be in communion with his Maker or when he will be pouring out his soul in a pibroch then the beegness of the man will be manifest. Aye," continued the piper, warming to his theme and encouraged by the eager sympathy of his listener, "and not only the beegness but the quality of the soul.
"That's all right," grinned Pierre. "You got the beeg will lef' yet. It take the heducate man for stan' the col', you know." Willard gritted his teeth. They awoke to the whine of a grey windstorm that swept the cutting snow in swirling clouds and made travel a madness. The next day was worse.
He turned weakly, to behold Pierre propped in a chair by the stove, frost-scarred and pale, but aggressive even in recuperation. He gesticulated fiercely with a bandaged hand, hot in controversy with some big-limbed, bearded strangers. "Bah! You fellers no good too beeg in the ches', too leetle in the forehead. She'll tak' the heducate mans for stan' the 'ardsheep lak' me an' Meestaire Weelard."
A man whose pinched, wizened body was a fitting cloister for the warped soul that flashed malignantly from the beady, snakelike eyes. "Non, non!" he cried, and the venomous glance of the beady eyes was not unmingled with fear. "We ke'p straight on pas' de beeg swamp. Me I'm no lak' dees wintaire trail." He pointed meaningly toward the marks of the sled in the snow. The other laughed derisively.
"One cannot tell wiz ze Americans," Frenchy explained. "Zey grow so queeck so beeg. In Europe, zey haf' nevaire seen anyzing like zis zis army," he added, indicating with a sweeping wave of his hand the groups of lolling, joking soldiers. "They make fun of you a lot, don't they?" "Ah, zat I do not mind." "Maybe that's why they all like you."
"What is he saying, Jerry?" said Cameron after they had listened for some minutes. "Oh he beeg damfool!" said Jerry, whose vocabulary had been learned mostly by association with freighters and the Police. "He tell 'bout beeg meeting, beeg man Louis Riel mak' beeg noise. Bah! Beeg damfool!" The whole scene had lost for Jerry its mystic impressiveness and had become contemptibly commonplace.
I fear, Poussette, that in leaving Father Rielle and coming to me, you were not acting honestly, openly." Poussette, in admiration of his hero's beautiful pastoral diction, felt no resentment and exhibited no temper. "No fault!" he exclaimed. "Ah, but there that is not so, Mr. Ringfield. Look, sir, look now, there is fault enough beeg fault what I have said.
With this the catechist stepped back by the side of his companions, who had remained perfectly erect during it all. Among the miners there was a hurried whispered conversation, and at length Caribou Sol arose to speak. "Whar," he asked, "will the Council be held?" "On de flat, at foot of hill. Half way," replied Amos. "When?" "Bime by, to-day. Two, mebbe tree hour. Beeg chief wait word."
"Eet seem terrifying to ze leetle Mam'zelle because she is unused eh? Me! I be terrified at ze beeg city where she come from, p'r'aps. Zey tell Pete 'bout waggings run wizout horses, like stea'mill. Ugh! No wanter see dem. Debbil in 'em," and he laughed, not unpleasantly, making a small joke of the suggestion.
We camp to-night at the Big Rock at the entrance to the Sun Dance Canyon. You remember?" Jerry nodded. "There's something doing, Jerry, or I am much mistaken. Got any grub?" "Grub?" asked Jerry. "Me here t'ree day," tapping his rolled blanket at the back of his saddle. "Odder fellers grub Jakes t'ree men t'ree day. Come Beeg Rock to-night mebbe to-morrow."
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