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Therefore of course, I hoped that he would catch the packmen, and the boys were asking my opinion as of an oracle, about it. A certain boy leaning up against me would not allow my elbow room, and struck me very sadly in the stomach part, though his own was full of my parliament.
Even the Indian packmen were stirred out of their usual indifference to things beyond their labors. Bill laughed as the old man vanished beyond the piles of pay dirt, which had been converted into defences. "Guess he's worried some," he said. Abe Dodds chewed and spat. "Worried? Gee, that don't say a thing not a thing.
Brock would watch these packmen as, thus handicapped with a load weighing from two to five hundred pounds, they set out across the rough portage, singing, and at a dog trot, following each other in quick succession.
Indeed we had some grounds for reflection while the steak was getting ready, to see how perfectly they accepted us at their own valuation, and how our best politeness and best efforts at entertainment seemed to fit quite suitably with the character of packmen. At least it seemed a good account of the profession in France, that even before such judges we could not beat them at our own weapons.
"Why, you must ha' dealt wi' no end o' packmen when you war a young lass before the master here had the luck to set eyes on you. I know where you lived, I do, seen th' house many a time, close upon Squire Darleigh's, a stone house wi' steps " "Ah, that it had," said Mrs. Glegg, pouring out the tea. "You know something o' my family, then?
"You're used to seein' a different sort o' article carried by packmen, when you lived at the stone house. Packs is come down i' the world; I told you that; my goods are for common folks. Mrs. Pepper 'ull give me ten shillin' for that muslin, an' be sorry as I didn't ask her more.
At the Cascades, the Milles Roches and the Cedars, three-quarters of the cargo had to be portaged by the packmen. At times these lightened boats were poled or tracked through the broken water, towed by the men, from such foothold as the rocky banks afforded, by means of a long lariat tied to the boat's bow, with loops over each trackman's shoulder, one man steering with a long sweep.
Despite the cold for the morning was sharp and frosty, though free from wind there were half a dozen packmen drinking and squabbling before the inn, while the beasts they drove quenched their thirst at the trough.
The packmen are so styled because of their visits being paid fortnightly. Before descending the mine Captain Dan led Oliver to the counting-house, where he bade him undress and put on miner's clothing. "I'll need a biggish suit," observed Oliver. "True," said Captain Dan; "we are obliged usually to give visitors our smallest suits. You are an exception to the rule.
"We are afraid to proceed," said one of the ladies, "for fear of Babinsky." "Babinsky," answered the hostess, "has never shown his face here." The ladies were shown into a plain apartment, but were made uneasy by seeing a number of ferocious looking men in the passage and bar. "Who are these?" asked the lady. "Only packmen," replied the landlady.
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