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A couple of hours farther on Nicholas permitted a halt on the edge of a struggling little grove of dwarfed cotton-wood. The kettle and things being withdrawn from various portions of the Ol' Chief's person, he, once more warmly tucked up and tightly lashed down, drew the edge of the outer coverlid up till it met the wolf-skin fringe of his parki hood, and relapsed into slumber.
With thoughts turning reluctantly from breakfast, "What's that?" asked the Boy. "That is our church bell." The Father had helped the Colonel to find his parki. "Oh a of course " "A fine tone, don't you think? But you can't tell so well in this storm. We are fond of our bell. It is the first that ever rang out in the Yukon valley. Listen!" They stood still a moment before opening the front door.
Still, in the brigantine there were many sources of uneasiness and anxiety unknown to me in the whale-boat. True, we had now between us and the deep, five hundred good planks to one lath in our buoyant little chip. But the Parki required more care and attention; especially by night, when a vigilant look-out was indispensable.
Sleepily O'Flynn gave it as his opinion that he'd be damned if he did. With unheard-of alacrity, "I'll go," said Potts. The Colonel stared at him, and, by some trick of the brain, he had a vision of Potts listening at the door the night before, and then resuming that clinking, scratching sound in the corner the store corner. "Hand me over my parki, will you?" Potts said to the Boy.
Kaviak's demand for some of the beverage reminded the Boy of the Christmas-tree. It had been intended as a climax to wind up the entertainment, but to produce it now might save the situation. He got up and pulled on his parki. "Back 'n a minute." But he was gone a long time. Benham looked down the toast-list and smiled inwardly, for it was Klondyked from top to bottom.
"You shall sit as far away from this splendid blaze as you can get, or you will have trouble with that cheek." So the Boy had to yield his place to O'Flynn, and join Mac over on the bean-bags. "Why didn't you get a parki when you were at St. Michael's?" said the priest as this change was being effected. "We had just as much more than we could carry.
"What is it, anyway?" the Boy pursued. "His amulet, I suppose." As Father Wills proceeded to enforce his order, and pulled the leather string over the child's head, Kaviak rent the air with shrieks and coughs. He seemed to say as well as he could, "I can do without my parki and my mucklucks, but I'll take my death without my amulet."
The Boy got hold of the neck of the Colonel's parki and pulled him frantically along the ice a few yards, and then realised that only the terror of the moment gave him the strength to do that much. To drag a man of the Colonel's weight all the way to the wood was stark impossibility. He couldn't get him eighty yards.
"I thought he was at his tricks," said the Boy ruefully some hours after. "I believe I'm an ass, and Nig is a gentleman and a scholar. He knew perfectly what he was about." "Reckon we'll camp, pardner." "Reckon we might as well." After unharnessing the dogs, the Boy stood an instant looking enviously at them as he thawed out his stiff hands under his parki.
After quitting the Parki, we had much calm weather, varied by light breezes. And sailing smoothly over a sea, so recently one sheet of foam, I could not avoid bethinking me, how fortunate it was, that the gale had overtaken us in the brigantine, and not in the Chamois.
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