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Updated: June 13, 2025
"She wan't te right kind of a gal she wan't like my Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock, dat is de same shape all de way down from her head to her heels. So I let dat Ferrington have her." The Huron, who understood all about that matter, indulged in a broad smile at this remark.
"Pretty good; she is in de lodge." "She is safe in the hands of Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock, but I will look in." The savage stepped to the entrance and merely glanced inside. The darkness was so great that he saw nothing but the figure of the squaw before him, and he and his companion passed on.
Thus it was that he arose before his spouse; but his step awakened her. "What's the matter, Hans? Are you sick?" she asked, with considerable solicitude. "No, my dear, good Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock, I feels so goot as, ever, but I t'inks te mornin' air does me goot, so I goes out to got a little."
He could scarce believe it until Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock told him that she was to be strictly guarded, used as her slave and never to be out of her sight for one minute. In case of her escape, Hans Vanderbum was to be held responsible for it, his life paying the forfeit. "Dat is quare," he muttered. "I guess Oonomoo can fix it, if dey does do it."
Quanonshet and Madokawandock were too confounded for reply. "Shposing your poor old fader should go crazy!! Here he is working himself to skin and bone Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock, ain't you got dat cooked?" "No!" screamed the wife. "You big, lazy man, get up and stir yourself! You don't do anything but sleep and smoke, while I'm working all the flesh off my bones for you!"
"I shpose I can; if my Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock t'inks so, I can." "Well, she thinks so." The fact that his wife "thought so" was equivalent to a command with Hans. He manifested no unwillingness or reluctance in obeying. Accordingly, he furnished himself with a hook, line and bait, and set out for the river. It was now getting well along in the forenoon, the sun being above the tree-tops.
The children needed no commands to remain out doors. The food was nicely cooking, when Hans started up as if alarmed. "What's the matter?" inquired his wife. "I t'inks I hears some noise outside. Hadn't you better goes out, my dear, good, kind Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock, and see vot it is?"
"When Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock wakes up and finds te gal gone, she will t'inks I done it, and den den den " The awful expression of his countenance spoke more eloquently than any words, of the consequences of such a discovery and suspicion upon the part of his spouse. "Take some self when git back go to sleep squaw wake up first."
The more fully to carry out his plans, Hans feigned sickness shortly after his return, so that Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock, who really had a sort of affection for him, allowed him to remain inside, while she busied herself with the corn-planting. This was the very opportunity for which Hans longed, and he lost no time in improving it. "I've see'd Oonomoo," said he, by way of introduction.
Much obleege fur yer bein' so kind fur to stand under and breaks my fall." "And breaks mine own neck, too, eh?" "Who might be you wid your big bread-basket?" inquired Cato, still lying upon his back and kicking up his heels. "Me? I's Hans Vanderbum, dat pelongs to Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock." Cato grew sober in an instant.
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