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Strong tea in plenty, fresh birch syrup, forest-made cranberry wine, a large chunk of dried Saskatoon berries served with bear's grease, frozen cranberries, and a little bannock made of flour, water, and grease, completed the fare. "Then, too, Ojistoh sat beside me and ate out of my dish. She even used my pipe for an after-dinner smoke.
She took from her bosom a fragile object and laid it in his palm, then clasped her hands over her face and bowed until the little head with its running curls was low to the log step. McElroy strained his eyes to see what he held. It was a dried spray of the blossoms of the saskatoon. For a moment he sat in stupid wonder.
As he moved away, free of step and straight as an Indian, he filliped away a small budding twig of the saskatoon which one of the youths had brought in to show how the woods were answering the call of the warm sun, and which he had dandled in his fingers as he walked. It fell at the edge of the beaded skirt and quick as thought the hand of Francette shot out and covered it.
A finer quality of pemmican for officers or travellers was composed of 60 per cent. of dried meat pounded extra fine and sifted; 33 per cent. of grease taken from marrow bones boiled and strained; 5 per cent. of dried Saskatoon berries; 2 per cent. of dried choke cherries, and sugar according to taste.
"It isn't the place I'd choose to bring you to, Helen, though Williams has done a lot in the couple of hours since you arrived. It doesn't seem the same old room. If you'd believe me, he wants four days off to scare up some luxuries worthy of the event down at Saskatoon . . . and I can't convince myself it's part of our duties. He got quite huffy when I refused.
You'll find two hundred gold in the package." "Thanks," says I, openin' the long envelope. "But what's this other?" "Oh, that!" says she. "Interest. Deed for a few lots in the new North Addition to Saskatoon." "Tut, tut!" says I. "I can't take 'em. That wa'n't any loan I staked you to; just bread on the waters." "Well, you can't kick if it comes back a ham sandwich," says she.
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