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He is grin, grin, and told everybody how he learn my fader two good lesson. An' he is told my fader: 'You see what I'll be goin' for do wis you if ever you go on my land again wisout you pay me rent. "'How much you want? my fader say. "'Half de fish you catch. "'Monjee! Never! "'Five dollar a year, den. "'Saprie, no. Dat's too much. "'All right.
Baptiste went forward a few steps, hesitated, stopped, turned, and fairly ran back toward the party. As he came he continually turned his head from side to side as if expecting to see some dreadful thing following. The men behind Tom stopped. Their faces were blanched. They looked, too, from side to side. "Halt, Mr. Tom, halt! Oh, monjee, M'sieu, stop!" said Jawnny.
"Come 'ome kveek; yo' 'ouse ees hall burn'!" "W'at!" cried Patrick. "MONJEE!" And he drove the canoe ashore, leaped out, and ran up the bank toward the village as if he were mad. The other men followed him, leaving me with the boys to unload the canoes and pull them up on the sand, where the waves would not chafe them. This took some time, and the boys helped me willingly.
"'Never dat's robbery, he's say, an' he's begin to cry like ver' li'll baby. "'Pull him hup, Marie, an' give him some more, Alphonsine she's say. "But de old rascal is so scare 'bout dat, dat he's say he's pay right off. So we's pull him up near to de platform, only we hain't big 'nuff fool for let him out of de net till he's take out his purse an' pay de twelve dollare. "Monjee, M'sieu!
"Do you mean you have seen a Windego track?" "Monjee, seh, don't say its name! Let us go back," said Jawnny. "Baptiste was at Madores' shanty with us when it took Hermidas Dubois." "Yesseh. That's de way I'll come for know de track soon 's I see it," said Baptiste. "Before den I mos' don' b'lieve dere was any of it. But ain't it take Hermidas Dubois only last New Year's?"
Tom looked round at his men, amazed at their faces of mysterious terror. "What on earth has happened?" cried he. Instead of answering, the men simply pointed to Big Baptiste, who was soon within twenty yards. "What is the trouble, Baptiste?" asked Tom. Baptiste's face was the hue of death. As he spoke he shuddered: "Monjee, Mr. Tom, we'll got for stop de job!" "Stop the job! Are you crazy?"
She's try hard, hard, but she hain't able. De net is down in de rapid, an' she's only able for hang on to de hannle. Den I'll know she's got one big sturgeon, an' he's so big she can't pull him up. "Monjee! what I care 'bout dat! I'll laugh me. Den I'll laugh good some more, for I'll want Alphonsine for see how I'll laugh big. And I'll talk to myself: "'Dat's good for dose Seguins, I'll say.
"'M'sieu Savarin, de whole river will be laugh at you for let two young girl take eet out of smart man like you like dat. Hain't you tink your life worth twelve dollare? Didn't dey save you from de culbute? Monjee! I'll tink de whole river not laugh so ver' bad if you pay dose young girl one hunder dollare for save you so kind. "'One hunder dollare! he's mos' cry.
"So we pull him up, an' den Alphonsine she's say to me: 'Let out de hannle, quick' and he's under de water some more. When we stop de net, he's got hees head up pretty quick. "'Monjee! I'll be drown' if you don't pull me out, he's mos' cry. "'Ver' well if you's drown, your family be ver' glad, Alphonsine she's say. 'Den they's got all your money for spend quick, quick.
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