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He and two assistants were busily engaged at the barred window of the partition, receiving and counting bales of skins, passing out little wooden castors, and taking them in again in exchange for powder and shot, tobacco and beads, and various other commodities. For a few moments I watched the scene sharply, though with an assumed air of indifference. I was satisfied that no Sioux were present.
To one of the Indians he gave one with these words: "Mu-hi-kun, my brother, here be pelts to the value of two hundred 'beaver. Behold a string, then, of two hundred 'castors, and in addition I give my brother one fathom of tobacco." The Indian calculated rapidly, his eye abstracted.
The Male Beaver has Six stones, two which Contanes a Substance much like finely pulverised bark of a pale yellow Colour and not unlike tanner's ooz in Smell, these are Called the bark Stones or castors; two others, which like the bark stone resemble Small blatters, contain a pure oil of a Strong rank disagreable Smell, and not unlike train Oil, these are Called the Oil Stones, and two others of Generation.
"Do not trouble yourselves," he said, "if Truchen should leave the table now and then during supper; for she will have to look after your bedrooms." In fact, the housekeeper made her escape quite frequently, and they could hear, on the first floor above them, the creaking of the wooden bedsteads and the rolling of the castors on the floor.
When the peculiar developments of the Dominion campaign of 1896 made it evident that Conservative victory in Quebec under the virtual leadership of the bishops meant the permanent domination of the Castors, the whole Bleu influence was thrown to the Liberals. Professor Skelton's life of Laurier does not take us much behind the scenes.
But the furniture he had seen, ran on castors across and across Mr. Testator's mind incessantly, when, in the chill hour of five in the morning, he got to bed. He particularly wanted a table to write at, and a table expressly made to be written at, had been the piece of furniture in the foreground of the heap.
You go along like a buttock of beef upon castors you do." "Ain't you afraid I'll kick, if you go on like that, Diamond?" "Kick! You couldn't kick if you tried. You might heave your rump up half a foot, but for lashing out oho! If you did, you'd be down on your belly before you could get your legs under you again. It's my belief, once out, they'd stick out for ever. Talk of kicking!
He passed a great part of his time in his cabin, lying on a bed, which, swinging on a kind of castors, alleviated the severity of the sea- sickness from which he frequently suffered much when the ship rolled. I was almost always with him in his cabin, where I read to him some of the favourite works which he had selected for his camp library.
Then stooping stiffly to seize the Doctor's easy-chair by the back, he made the castors squeak as he swung it round and threw himself into it with his back to the window, when he crossed one leg over the other, and sat staring at them fiercely and scanning for some moments every trace of the late encounter.
To one of the Indians he gave one with these words: "Mu-hi-kun, my brother, here be pelts to the value of two hundred 'beaver. Behold a string, then, of two hundred 'castors, and in addition I give my brother one fathom of tobacco." The Indian calculated rapidly, his eye abstracted.
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