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The door opened and her husband entered. "Why, Blanche what's the matter? You've let the fire go out. It's cold as blixen in here. You'll take cold, first you know." Winter came late, but with a fury which appalled the strong hearts of the settlers. Most of them were from the wooded lands of the East, and the sweep of the wind across this level sod had a terror which made them quake and cower.
This belief was further strengthened by a glimpse which he caught of a heavy branch upon the ground. "Hebens, golly! dat you, ole swill-barrel?" greeted his ears; and he picked his hat and himself up at the same time, to see the negro, Cato, lying on the ground, with his heels high up in the air. "Dunder and blixen! who are you?" inquired Hans, more astonished than ever.
The prolonged snore which was steadily issuing from the throat of the sleeping parent, terminated in a sharp, explosive grunt. As his eyes opened, the boys scrambled away like frogs to the opposite side of the lodge, under the protecting care of their mother. "Dunder and blixen! You dunderin' Dutch Indians, dishturbin' your poor old dad dat is wearing his life out for you!
The wagons were found as left, and after hitching up the horses, Mr. Shirk rode on ahead, imprudently leaving his rifle in one of the wagons. On the grade above the Blixen ranch Shirk looked back and saw the men coming and had little thought of danger. The men drove up to the crossing, when they were fired upon and both killed. Mr. Shirk was also fired upon, but miraculously escaped death.
For over three months the patient father had instructed them daily in regard to this character, and the two together must have repeated it several thousand times. But, it mattered not; neither had any conception now of it, and their looks showed such unmistakably to their instructor. "Dunder and blixen, vot Dutch Indians!" he exclaimed, impatiently.
The children at school called me Gumbo, and teased me so much that I became disgusted with the French language and tried to forget it which has been a disadvantage to me since that time. My aunt was rich in her own right. My uncle Conner was poor; he drank and gambled and wasted her fortune; she in return give him blixen all the time.
But Smith caught the bridle reins and whispered to him, "For God's sake don't run," and, holding to the reins, quietly rode out of the herd, the darkness of the night alone proving their salvation. At the French ranch on Blixen River an attack was made by a detached war party, but Mr. French saved himself and men by cool daring and steady bravery.
She arose, stepping cautiously and carefully, and when she found herself in the open air once more, with the cool night-wind blowing upon her fevered cheek, she almost fainted from excessive emotion. "Come, now, walks right behind me, and if you sees dunder and blixen! dere comes an Injin!"
"Dat is purty goot," he mused, "and I will soon got a lot more, and my Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock will feel goot too, when I takes 'em home. She won't Dunder and Blixen!" The limb upon which he was seated suddenly broke short off, and Hans dropped into the river out of sight. But such a ponderous body as his could not sink, and upon coming to the surface, he paddled hurriedly to the shore.
"Is her husband, that rascally Ferrington, living?" Oonomoo replied that he was. "And is their baby, too?" "Yes, they have two pappooses." "Dunder and blixen!" exclaimed Hans Vanderbum, and then resuming the English language, or rather his version of it, he added: "Dat gal wanted to marry mit me once." "Why no marry den?" inquired Oonomoo, also coming back to the more difficult language.
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