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Updated: May 29, 2025
"I know you," continued Marche-a-Terre, "for a Jack Grab-All who would rather give blows than receive them when there's nothing else to be done. We have not come here to grab dead men's shoes; we are devils against devils, and sorrow to those whose claws are too short. The Grande-Garce has sent us here to save the Gars. He is up there; lift your dog's nose and see that window above the tower."
She did not rise, as she gave him her hand; the color flooded her face. "Susan, you little turkey-buzzard " It was the old Peter! "where've you been all evening? The next for me!" "Mr. Bocqueraz, Mr. Coleman," Susan said, with composure, "Peter, Mr. Stephen Graham Bocqueraz." Even to Peter the name meant something. "Why, Susan, you little grab-all!" he accused her vivaciously.
"For all that, the unscrupulous, grab-all financier is a blight on the country. The prospector risks his life in the struggle with half-frozen tundra bog, rotten rock, and snow, and the other fellow, with his net of bribes and graft, gets the reward. But, we won't stand for that kind of thing." "Let's be practical.
Maggie Nolan's eyes met hers in wrathful protest as she helped herself. "Did ye ever see sich a girl as Ju?" she whispered. "A regular grab-all. Of course if me a'nt goes favourin' her, the poor fellow 'ull have to take her. But I pity him, aye do I." "Sure maybe he won't," whispered Elleney back, consolingly.
"And you girls will all fall in love with him!" prophesied Josephine. "Fall?" echoed Susan studying photographs. "I head the waiting list! You grab-all! He's simply perfection rich and stunning, and an old friend and a yacht and a motor " "And a fine, hard-working fellow, Sue," added Josephine's mother. "I begin to feel old and unmarried," mourned Susan.
It consists in opening and closing the country by alternate sections, like crops and fallow land in farming. The Indians have followed this method for generations, dividing the family hunting grounds into three parts, hunting each in rotation, and always leaving enough to breed back the numbers. But the pressure of the grab-all policy from outside may become irresistible.
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