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Updated: May 27, 2025
'Aye, exclaimed a lanky-haired, swarthy young man who sat upon the right of Sir Gervas, 'he will provide for us, even as the stream of water gushed forth out of dry places, even as the quails and the manna lay thick upon barren soil.
I shall have to give you back your ten dollars." "I'll not take it. A bargain is a bargain. I want my dog broken, and you need the money to send off your quails with." "I know it," said David again; "but I can't shoot any more birds over him. I have no gun." "Where is it?" "At the bottom of the bayou."
In these mountains there are many herds of swine, many dantes, lions, tigers, bears, ounces, large wild-cats, monkeys, vast snakes, and other vermin. There are also abundance of partridges, quails, turtle-doves, pigeons, and other birds of many different kinds.
"If it hadn't been for Dave, Lester and I would have pocketed a nice little sum of spending money; but he's gone and got the job of trapping the quails, or rather that meddlesome Don Gordon got it for him, and, not satisfied with that, he has the cheek to run against me when I am trying to be appointed mail carrier." "Well," said Mr. Owens.
It was addressed to me, you know, and so Bert opened it. The man says, he wants fifty dozen live quails immediately, and but there it is, read it for yourself." Don produced the letter, and David took it with a very unsteady hand. A hundred and fifty dollars was a fortune in his eyes, a larger one too than he had hoped to earn for some years to come.
We calculate that the construction of the shanty, with its appurtenances, will occupy at least a week in all probability, much longer. Malcolm, McPhail, and Lacosse, are to join us in our labours as soon as they have finished the cradles. The hunters had good luck to-day, and came in with a couple of fat bucks. The trapper had also snared a number of quails, so that our table was nobly furnished.
These berries are a great blessing to every one, besides forming abundant food for the broods of young quails and partridges; squirrels, too, of every kind eat them. There are blackberries also, Lady Mary; and some people call them thimbleberries." "Nurse, I have heard mamma talk about blackberries."
Finally, his anxiety was relieved by the arrival of the first letter that had ever been addressed to himself. He tore it open with eager hands, and read that the quails had been received in good order, and that the money, amounting to one hundred and ninety-two dollars and fifty cents, had been paid over to the agent from whom they were received. David could hardly believe it.
"Don is assisting in shipping quails out of the country, and the first thing he knows the dog will be of no use to him." Dan did not waste five minutes in loafing about the store after that. Here was something he had been waiting for ever since he stole the pointer.
"Monseigneur sees nobody at this hour," he was answered by a fellow carrying a vermeil dish, in which were three pheasants and twelve quails. "Tell him," said the captain, laying hold of the servant by the end of his dish, "that I am M. d'Artagnan, captain of his majesty's musketeers." The fellow uttered a cry of surprise, and disappeared; D'Artagnan following him slowly.
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