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"You see, you do the first part, then me, then Camilla just like the fiery cross." He was half way to the stable as he spoke. He threw the saddle on Chiniquy and was soon galloping down the road with the box under his arm. Camilla came to the door in answer to Jim's ring. He handed her the box, and lifting his hat was about to leave without a word, when Camilla noticed the writing.
While he was holding up the wheels and craning his neck around the back of the buggy to see if his efforts were successful, Jim Russell came into the yard, riding his dun-coloured pony Chiniquy. He stood still in astonishment. Then the meaning of it came to him and he rolled off Chiniquy's back, shaking with silent laughter. "Come, come, Arthur," he said as soon as he could speak.
Alexander MacAllister, he says to Andrew Peters, 'Well, and what do you think of Father Chiniquy now? 'Vell, growled Andrew, 'I t'ink de old devil has got a blessing left yet. Laws, how Henry did laugh over that today!" "Do you know who Mr. Ford is, Captain Jim?" asked Anne, seeing that Captain Jim's fountain of reminiscence had run out for the present. "I want you to guess."
Of the reliability of his statements there can be no question, as most of them are grounded on the testimony of "Father" Chiniquy conceded to be the most accomplished liar since Ananias gave up the ghost.
Besides, there was a French boy in the boat Catholic of course. You know old Father Chiniquy had turned Protestant, so the Catholics hadn't much use for him. Well, we sat out in the gulf in the broiling sun till noon, and not a bite did we get. When we went ashore old Father Chiniquy had to go, so he said in that polite way of his, 'I'm very sorry I cannot go out with you dis afternoon, Mr.
They wouldn't look at Chiniquy, I am sure, if they could get a nip at you." The Englishman looked perplexed. "You are learning as well as any person could learn," Jim said kindly. "I think you are doing famously. No person is particularly bright at work entirely new.
It was Chiniquy who first started the story that the Pope was responsible for the assassination of President Lincoln, and I am expecting him to prove that Guiteau who gave the death-wound to Garfield, was a Jesuit in disguise and acted on orders received from Rome.
Captain Jim's visit to his old friend had revived many recollections and he was now in the full tide of reminiscences. "Henry was asking me today if I remembered the time old Father Chiniquy blessed Alexander MacAllister's boat. Another odd yarn and true as gospel. I was in the boat myself. We went out, him and me, in Alexander MacAllister's boat one morning at sunrise.
"Well, well," he said to himself as he untied Chiniquy, "little Jimmy's lost his tongue, I wonder why?" All the way home the vision of lovely dark eyes and rippling brown hair with just a hint of red in it, danced before him. Chiniquy, taking advantage of his master's preoccupation, wandered aimlessly against a barbed wire, taking very good care not to get too close to it himself.
Jim came to himself just in time to save his leg from a prod from the spikes. "Chiniquy, Chiniquy," he said gravely, "I understand now something of the hatred the French bear your illustrious namesake. But no matter what the man's sins may have been, surely he did not deserve to have a little flea-bitten, mangey, treacherous, mouse-coloured deceiver like you named for him."
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