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"Do you know," he went on, "I heard that first down the Mattawa," and away he went into a story of an experience with French-Canadian raftsmen, mixing up his French and English in so charming a manner that Latour; who in his younger days long ago had been a shantyman himself, hardly knew whether he was standing on his head or on his heels.
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.
"Why?" said Kate, quietly, facing him. "Oh, well, you know, Miss Raymond," stammered Mr. Sims, "that sort of attire, you know, is hardly the thing for the drawing-room, you know." "He is a shantyman," said Maimie, apologetically, "and they all dress like that. I don't suppose that he has any other clothes with him." "Oh, of course," assented Mr. Sims, retreating before this double attack.
Crusoe did not watch over and educate Friday any more carefully than I my mild and gentlemanly "Shantyman" in his blue shirt and canvas trowsers.
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.
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