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Updated: June 26, 2025


Some there were whose dwellings stood on high ground, and who professed to have no belief in floods at all. In other circumstances Peegwish would have noted the state of things that prevailed, but at that time his faculties were steeped in beer. For some days past they had been in this condition, but his supply was exhausted, and people who knew his propensity refused to give him more.

The Indian protested, in very bad English, that he had not tasted beer since the previous Christmas; whereupon Elsie proceeded to administer an earnest reproof to the muddled hypocrite, for she was really anxious to save him from the destruction which had already overtaken many of his red brethren through the baleful influence of fire-water; but Peegwish was just then in no condition to appreciate her remarks.

Mr Cockran, with his household and Sabbath scholars, besides a few of the people, resolved to stick to the church as long as it should stick to the ground, and Peegwish remained with them. He had unbounded confidence in the good missionary, and still more unbounded confidence in the resources of the parsonage kitchen. Wildcat was similarly impressed.

She was sister to Peegwish, and was named by him Wildcat. Despite appearances, the hut was comfortably warm, for Wildcat who, to do her justice, had been grossly misnamed was fond of heat. She devoted the chief part of her existence to the collection of fuel, most of the remainder being spent in making moccasins, etcetera, and cooking.

Water had to be drawn, wood to be chopped, moccasins and leggings and coats to be made, as well as meals to be cooked. She was, therefore, compelled to fish in moderation. "Bring a light," said Peegwish, in that tone of mild entreaty with which he was wont to make his wants known. There being no one else in the room at the moment, Wildcat obeyed.

He walked towards the sisters with that solemn dignity of manner peculiar to the North American savage, but the intensified solemnity of his looks and a certain unsteadiness in his gait rather marred the dignity. "Peegwish," said Elsie, going towards him with a grieved look, "you have been drinking beer again."

His reference to the rise of the river, however, turned Wildcat's thoughts to the fact that the ice in their immediate neighbourhood had been forced up in a manner that caused her some anxiety. She mentioned her fears to Peegwish, but that worthy was too deeply immersed in his experiments just then to care much for anything else.

The old Indian returned to Willow Creek with pencil notes, written on birch bark, to old Samuel Ravenshaw and Angus Macdonald, and the other three of the party set off at once to renew the chase on foot, with blankets and food strapped to their backs and guns on their shoulders for Rollin carried his own fowling-piece, and Victor had borrowed that of Peegwish.

To which his better half invariably replied, "Never saw anything like it before;" and Miss Trim remarked, "It is awful." "It snows hard whatever," was Angus Macdonald's usual observation about the same hour. To which his humble and fast friend Peegwish who assisted in his kitchen was wont to answer, "Ho!" and glare solemnly, as though to intimate that his thoughts were too deep for utterance.

When the improvements just mentioned were completed, Michel Rollin, unable to settle down, had arranged with Peegwish and Wildcat to go off on a fishing expedition. Before starting he entered the hut, and said to Winklemann, who was filling his "moder's" pipe for her "You vill be here ven I come back? You vill not leave the ol' peepil?" "No; I vill stope till you retoorns.

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