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Updated: May 25, 2025
And I would need only to close my eyes, and all about me would come and go the ghosts of the mighty doers who are my kin. Big men, bearded and powerful, pushing up stream with the cordelle on their shoulders! Voyageurs chanting at the paddles! Mackinaws descending with precious freights of furs! Steamboats grunting and snoring up stream!
The Mackinaws were flecked far and wide over the lake, and a dirty smudge on the blue showed where the Far Harbor and Beaverton boat had gone over the horizon. But there, over the point and dangerously close to the land, hung another smudge, gradually pushing its way like a writhing, black serpent, lakewards.
Cooke's vigilance was rewarded by a glimpse of the lighthouse on Far Harbor reef, and almost simultaneously he picked up, to the westward, the ragged outline of the house-tops and spires of the town itself. But as we neared the reef the harbor appeared as quiet as a Sunday morning: a few Mackinaws were sailing hither and thither, and the Far Harbor and Beaverton boat was coming out.
He was clad like a logger, in thick mackinaws and heavy boots, and the texture of his garments was appropriate to the temperature, the weather.
There were a great number of Indians in town that day, big dark fellows in muddy moccasins and faded mackinaws who stood about watching the machinations of the whites without audible comments. Toward night the rain stopped and Lydia begged her father to take her into town to see the parade that would be indulged in by the victorious party.
And with each horse came a dog of highly varied breed. The youngsters had been racing about the ledge for some time before the grown people began to appear. The women, most of them very handsome, were dressed dowdily in mackinaws and anomalous foot covering. But the men were resplendent in chaps and short leather coats, with gay silk neckerchiefs, with silver spurs and embossed saddles.
"I wake wide open quick," he was saying. "I coom to the door. I there hear one shot more." He was interrupted by a warm-complexioned man, clad in faded mackinaws. "What did you think?" he asked. "Eh?" the witness queried, his face dark and troubled with perplexity. "When you came to the door, what was your first thought?"
And then the keel-boats and the bull-boats and the mackinaws and the up-river men flashed out like a stereopticon picture when the man moves the slide; and I saw a little ragged village of log houses scattered along the water front.
The Poor Boy, in shirt-sleeves, was soon busily employed, making in the centre of the living-room an enormous pile of winter furs and woolens coonskin coats, Shetland socks, stockings, oily Norfolk coats and mackintoshes, sweaters, mittens, fur gloves, fur robes, steamer rugs, toques, and mackinaws.
The gray column ended and another followed, the light streaming luridly this time over red toboggan caps and flaming crimson mackinaws, and as they entered they took up the refrain; then came a long platoon of blue and white, of green, of white, of brown and yellow. "Those white ones are the Wacouta Club," whispered Harry eagerly. "Those are the men you've met round at dances."
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