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Updated: May 29, 2025
And when the last wooden "castor" was in they went down stairs and out the picket lane, carrying their lighter purchases, but leaving the larger as "debt," to be called for when needed. Two of their companions mounted the stairs as they descended; and two more passed them in the narrow picket lane. So the trade went on. At once Sak-we-su and Mu-hi-kun were surrounded.
The Trader then led them to stairs, up which they clambered to where Davis, the Assistant Trader, kept store. There, barred by a heavy wooden grill from the airy loft filled with bright calicoes, sashes, pails, guns, blankets, clothes, and other ornamental and useful things, Sak-we-su and Mu-hi-kun made their choice, trading in the worn wooden "castors" on the string.
And when the last wooden "castor" was in they went down stairs and out the picket lane, carrying their lighter purchases, but leaving the larger as "debt," to be called for when needed. Two of their companions mounted the stairs as they descended; and two more passed them in the narrow picket lane. So the trade went on. At once Sak-we-su and Mu-hi-kun were surrounded.
The Trader then led them to stairs, up which they clambered to where Davis, the Assistant Trader, kept store. There, barred by a heavy wooden grill from the airy loft filled with bright calicoes, sashes, pails, guns, blankets, clothes, and other ornamental and useful things, Sak-we-su and Mu-hi-kun made their choice, trading in the worn wooden "castors" on the string.
"Sak-we-su, my brother," went on McDonald, "here be pelts to the value of three hundred 'beaver. Behold a string, then, of three hundred 'castors, and because you have brought so fine a skin of the otter, behold also a fathom of tobacco and a half sack of flour." "Good!" ejaculated the Indian.
"Sak-we-su, my brother," went on McDonald, "here be pelts to the value of three hundred 'beaver. Behold a string, then, of three hundred 'castors, and because you have brought so fine a skin of the otter, behold also a fathom of tobacco and a half sack of flour." "Good!" ejaculated the Indian.
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