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And all Pymeut chuckled, delighted at their story-teller's wit. Suddenly Muckluck broke away from the group, and ran briskly down to the river trail. "I will pray for you hard." She caught hold of the Boy's hand, and shook it warmly. "Sister Winifred says the Good Father " "Fact is, Muckluck," answered the Boy, disengaging himself with embarrassment, "my pardner here can hold up that end.
"He say Yukon Inua no like you." "He think white men bring plague, bring devils." "Got some money?" whispered Muckluck. "Not here." The Boy saw the moment when he would be turned out. He plunged his hands down into his trousers pockets and fished up a knife, his second-best one, fortunately. "Tell him I'm all right, and he can give this to Yukon Inua with my respects."
Two hands shot out, seized her by the heels, and dragged the wretched girl into the brute's lair. It was all over in a flash. A moment's paralysis of astonishment, and the involuntary rush forward was arrested by Muckluck, who fastened herself on to the rescuer's parki-tail and refused to be detached. "Yagorsha!" shouted the Boy.
There were the Silver Fox twins, the Black Fox triplets, Reynard Red Fox, Violet Blue Fox, and Baby Cross Fox. Rather a large gathering of Foxes, I admit, but there are more of the Fox family in Alaska than in any other part of the world. Little White Fox slipped behind the muckluck grass and listened. His relatives were quarrelling over who should have the extra egg.
"They don't go on like wild beasts." Muckluck pondered deeply this matter of supreme importance. "When you get you squaw, you no make her come?" The Boy shook his head, and turned away to cut short these excursions into comparative ethnology. But Muckluck was athirst for the strange new knowledge. "What you do?" He declined to betray his plan of action. "When you all same Joe? Hey?"
She dropped her hurried walk and frankly took to her heels, Joe doing the same; but as she was nearly as fleet of foot as Muckluck, in spite of her fat, she still kept a lessening distance between herself and her pursuer.
Muckluck explained and held up the shining object, blades open, corkscrew curling attractively before the covetous eyes of the Shamán. When he could endure the temptation no longer his two black claws shot out, but Nicholas intercepted the much-envied object, while, as it seemed, he drove a more advantageous bargain.
The individual referred to gave way to another spasm of merriment, which infected Nicholas. "My sister this one," he explained. "Oh-h!" The Boy joined in the laugh, and pulled off his Arctic cap with a bow borrowed straight from the Colonel. "Princess Muckluck, I'm proud to know you." "Name no Muckluck," began Nicholas; "name Mahk " "Mac? Nonsense! Mac's a man's name she's Princess Muckluck.
They gathered at the docks and told one another they wouldn't leave Dawson for fifty thousand dollars, then looked at the "failures" with home-sick eyes, remembering those months before the luckiest Klondyker could hear from the world outside. Between now and then, what would have come to pass up here, and what down there below! The Boy had got a place for Muckluck in the A. C. Store.
Perversity was not confined to the civilized of her sex. He walked on to find the Colonel. Muckluck followed, but the Boy wouldn't speak to her, wouldn't look at her. "You like my Holy Cross clo'es?" she inquired. "Me I look like your kind of girls now, huh?" No answer, but she kept up with him. "See?" She held up proudly a medallion, or coin of some sort, hung on a narrow strip of raw-hide.
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