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Paaker put his finger to his lips, and gave a shrill whistle that sounded like a yell in the silence. The stroke of oars responded to the call, and Paaker called out to his boatmen: "Bring the boat up here! these people can wait!" The pioneer's boat was larger and better manned than that of the princess. "Jump into the boat!" cried Rameri.
Had often thought she was not fit for a pioneer's wife." "Why?" "Oh, she was not strong enough, and had seen some of his friends' wives in Kansas who could do more work. But he never complained, he was so kind."
A long summer passed in proximity to the pioneer's cabin had enabled him to find out that eggs were good. He hastened his steps, and with a sliding scramble, which attracted the attention of the men in the canoe, he arrived at the water's edge. But to his indignant astonishment he was not the first to arrive. The mink was just ahead.
Foreseeing the exhaustion of their Minnesota white pine, which came a quarter of a century later, they set out to find the pine that would take its place. Their search covered several years and reached all the important stands in the western States. This was well in advance of the westward movement of the industry and Red River had the pioneer's opportunity for choice and rejection.
Once again, at least, Daniel was to watch the westward departure of pioneers. In 1811, when the Astorians passed, one of their number pointed to the immobile figure of "an old man on the bank, who, he said, was Daniel Boone." Sometimes the aged pioneer's mind cast forward to his last journey, for which his advancing years were preparing him.
Dennis, however, could not see the humor. "Why, Abe," said he, "that yarn's just a lie." "P'raps so," answered the small boy, "but if it is, it's a mighty good lie." As a matter of fact Abe had very few books. His earliest possessions consisted of less than half-a-dozen volumes a pioneer's library. First of all was the Bible, a whole library in itself, containing every sort of literature.
By Georg Ebers At last the pioneer's boat got off with his mother and the body of the dog, which he intended to send to be embalmed at Kynopolis, the city in which the dog was held sacred above all animals; Plutarch relates a quarrel between the inhabitants of this city, and the neighboring one of Oxyrynchos, where the fish called Oxyrynchos was worshipped.
The conference lasted but a short quarter of an hour, and then Pontiac had himself conducted to the hut in which Dave was a prisoner. "The white young man is sorry to be a prisoner," he said slowly, and gazing searchingly into the young pioneer's eyes. "I am sorry," answered Dave simply. "I do not understand it. Are not the English and the red men now at peace with each other?"
All at once he ceased his importunities; some instinct taught me that he was about to seek a more tractable subject. I was resolved that if he did contemplate such injustice, I should put a stop to it. And I went to watch him. Was that wrong? Why, he had promised me that I should have pioneer's rights in the realm of beauty. Sole possession was to be my reward?
But the slightest acquaintance with colonial writings will reveal the fact that such political radicalism as Thomas Hooker's was accompanied by an equally striking conservatism in other directions. One of these conservative traits was the pioneer's respect for property, and particularly for the land cleared by his own toil.
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