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Updated: June 19, 2025
They had room for only two hundred and fifty men, and as we stood in line we looked around to size up the bunch and see what our chances were for getting in. They were a husky-looking lot, and all were eager to go. I remember one big fellow near the end of the line offered me five dollars for my place. I said, "Go to hell with your five dollars."
"You are husky-looking youngsters," added Captain Clark, from his place beside his associate, as he looked admiringly at the two lads. "Where did you spend the winter?" continued Lewis. "In the Blackfoot country, to the northwest. We reached there last autumn and stayed until a few weeks ago." "I need not ask you if you were well treated, for your looks show that." "They were all our friends.
"And the size of them," exclaimed Chester. "Must all be over six feet." It did seem so. Great, big, husky-looking fellows they were, strong as gorillas heavily bearded, most of them, and warmly and snugly dressed. "They'll make these Austrians move around some, with an even break," declared Chester. And still the troops passed, seemingly without end.
Then he hesitated for a moment, and said: "Max, do you like the situation here in Mallorysport? Be damned if I do." "What do you mean?" "There are too many strangers in town," Ian Ferguson said. "All the same kind of strangers husky-looking young men, twenty to thirty, going around in pairs and small groups.
"It's scant favour I shall get from him. Heigho! my troubles seem never-ending, but there upon my word, I am getting used to them now. Bread, eh?" he went on, picking up the hunk of stale, black, husky-looking stuff before him. "I could make better bread myself out of bran." He picked up the tin of coffee and tasted it. "Ah, that's a bit better. I must say they do understand making coffee."
The horse tossed its head, wrinkled its upper lip, and seemed to grin. "That gave the big bear a jolt," he apparently observed. Bearover's companion was a husky-looking young Irishman, and he now seemed on the point of taking flight. He was even paler than Bearover, and his teeth actually chattered together. "Holy saints!" he gasped. "The divvil is in the beast! It spakes."
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