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"I suppose you would marry him if he were a mere nobody!" "If I loved him," said Kate, with slow deliberation, and a slight tremor in her voice, "I'd marry him if he were a shantyman!" "I believe you would," said Maimie, with a touch of regret in her voice; "but then, you've no Aunt Frank!" "Thank Providence," replied Kate, under her breath. "And I'm sure I don't want to offend her.
And it was in October, when the shantyman was passing through on his way to the woods a natural revolutionary, loving trouble as a coyote loves his hole that labour discontent was practically whipped into action, and the Councils of the two towns were stung into bitterness against the new provocative railway policy. Things looked dark enough.
"Big sturgeon?" cried the shantyman, jumping into his trousers. "Oh, but we shall have a good fish breakfast!" cried Delima. "Did I not say the blessed le bon Dieu would send plenty fish?" observed Memere. "Not a fish!" cried little Baptiste, with recovered breath. "But look! look!" and he flung open the door. The eddy was now white with planks. "Ten cents for each!" cried the boy.
He must be very sick to have that black sheep about him and no doctor either." The saddler spoke up now. "I took him a bottle of good brandy and some buttermilk-pop and seed cake I would give him a saddle if he had a horse he got my thousand dollars for me! Well, he took them, but what do you think? He sent them right off to the shantyman, Gugon, who has a broken leg.
The red-shirted river-driver from Manitou and the lawyer's clerk from Lebanon; the Presbyterian minister and a Christian brother of the Catholic school; a Salvation Army captain and a black-headed Catholic shantyman; the President of the Order of Good Templars and a switchman member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament slaved together on the hand-engine, to supplement the work of the two splendid engines of the Lebanon fire-brigade; or else they climbed the roofs of houses, side by side, to throw on the burning shingles the buckets of water handed up to them.
He wore the corduroys and Strathcona boots of a shantyman; about his waist was a bright red scarf. Inverted upon the stump was an empty wooden box and in each hand he flourished an empty whisky bottle.
The Norman airs and folk-songs of the day were easy to learn, simple and melodious. They have remained in the hearts and on the lips of all French Canada for over two centuries. The shantyman of Three Rivers still goes off to the woods chanting the Malbrouck s'en va-t-en guerre which his ancestors sang in the days of Blenheim and Oudenarde.
A shantyman is never so completely in his element as when the snow lies two feet deep upon the earth's brown breast. An open winter is his bane, Jack Frost his best friend; and there was a perceptible rise in the spirits of the occupants of Camp Kippewa as the mercury sank lower and lower in the tube of the foreman's thermometer.
The red-shirted river-driver from Manitou and the lawyer's clerk from Lebanon; the Presbyterian minister and a Christian brother of the Catholic school; a Salvation Army captain and a black-headed Catholic shantyman; the President of the Order of Good Templars and a switchman member of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament slaved together on the hand-engine, to supplement the work of the two splendid engines of the Lebanon fire-brigade; or else they climbed the roofs of houses, side by side, to throw on the burning shingles the buckets of water handed up to them.
They are usually characterized by a vivacious loquacity which is the seal of their nationality. But this one was silent in the extreme and had, as her son told me, never once held a conversation with him on any subject whatever. Of his father he knew literally only this fact that be had been a "shantyman" in his time too, and was killed by a strained rope striking him across the middle.
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