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On the side nearest to us some abandoned peat-cuttings showed that ubiquitous man had been at work there, but beyond these few petty scars there was no sign anywhere of human life. Not even a crow nor a seagull flapped its way over that hideous desert. This is the great Bog of Cree.
Is not the taller one he who brought us the proclamation of le grand chef?" "Oh, yes; the very one. How quick ma maitresse is in remembering persons." The Indian rode rapidly towards the two little scouts, and as he drew near he raised his hand. "It is not safe down here," he said, in Cree, "for the scouts.
A Cree who had become a Christian, and was named Peter, offered to accompany him; and Laurence thankfully accepted his assistance. The only provision they took with them was a good supply of pemmican; but they had an abundance of ammunition, knowing that they might depend for their support on the animals they might shoot.
He's the first Fullarton that's been at the Hole o' Cree, and he'll be the last for me. If ye'll tak' my advice ye'll just gie the matter up and gang name again, for there's na guid tae be got oot o' this place." "We shall go on with you or without you," Mordaunt answered. "Let us have your dog and we can pick you up on our way back."
"Jules McCarty have disgrace' his son!" "Melinda Crée," retorted Honoré, obliged to defend his own, "she take a little 'usban' honly nineteen." "She 'ave no chance like Jules; she is oblige' to wait and take what invite her." The voices of children from other quarter-breed cottages, playing along the beach, added cheer to the sweet darkness.
It is a Cree medicine feather, and not a warrior's." "Then," I said, with much embarrassment, "you had better tell me again, uncle, the language of the feathers. I have really forgotten it all."
Still can we hear Big Tom's deep rich voice reading in his musical Cree language: "Weya Muneto a ispeeche saketapun uske, ke niakew oo pauko-Koosisana, piko una tapwatowayitche numaweya oo ga nissewunatissety, maka oo ga ayaty kakeka pimatissewin." Which is the translation of that matchless verse, the sixteenth of the third chapter of Saint John's Gospel.
From the earliest historic times, it has been the way of savage man, red, black, brown and yellow, to kill as the wild animals do, only what he can use, or thinks he can use. The Cree Indian impounded small herds of bison, and sometimes killed from 100 to 200 at one time; but it was to make sure of having enough meat and hides, and because he expected to use the product.
Old Beaver-Tail fairly chuckled, then replied, between pipe puffs, "Some of our Cree boys go to school. They learn the white man's ways, and they are of no more use to their people. They cannot trap for furs, nor scout, nor hunt, nor find a prairie trail. You are wiser than that, Little Wolf-Willow.
The Sergeant laughed. "When we want a thing done, we can find a man in the force fit for the job. One of the boys I took up can talk to them in Cree or Assiniboin; and it wouldn't beat us if they spoke Hebrew or Greek. There's a trooper in my detachment who knows both." Benson did not doubt this.
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