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Updated: May 13, 2025
Dose log have dug up de snow an' I fin' what?" Impressively the speaker whispered one word, "GRAVEL!" Much to his disappointment, Rouletta remained impassive in the face of this startling announcement. Vaguely she inquired: "What of it? There's gravel everywhere. What you want is gold " "Mon Dieu!" 'Poleon lifted his hands in despair. "You're worse as cheechako.
Mebbe we meet dose cheechako' comin' in an' dey holler: 'Hallo, Frenchy! How's t'ing' in Dawson? an' we say: 'Pouf! We don' care 'bout Dawson; we goin' home." "Home!" Rouletta paused momentarily in her task. "Sure! Now voila,! Breakfas' she's serve in de baggage-car.
"Come away quick," she panted, and they led her into a near-by store, where she sank upon a seat and trembled until Dextry brought her a glass of whiskey. "Here, Miss," he said. "Pretty tough go for a 'cheechako. I'm afraid you ain't gettin' enamoured of this here country a whole lot." For half an hour he talked to her, in his whimsical way, of foreign things, till she was quieted.
Evidently he was accustomed to Yukon prices, for he showed no surprise at the figure the trader named, but took the guns and tested each of them, whereupon the old man knew that here was no "Cheechako," as tenderfeet are known in the North, although the man's garb had deceived him at first glance.
North, aye, North, through a land accurst, shunned by the scouring brutes, And all I heard was my own harsh word and the whine of the malamutes, Till at last I came to a cabin squat, built in the side of a hill, And I burst in the door, and there on the floor, frozen to death, lay Bill. * * From "Ballads of a Cheechako."
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