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"That pony is worth forty dollars," said Mike. "Sure. And you're as good as a squaw-man this minute. You're betrothed." "Am I?" The idy didn't seem to faze Mike. "If that's the case," said he, "I reckon I'll play the string out. I sort of like it as far as I've gone." "I wish she'd gave us that cream-colored mare or hers," I said. "It's worth two of this one." "I'll get it to-day," Mike declared.
"Then we return to the great chief's camp." For a while the young chieftain's eyes seemed to burn into those of the man before him, so intense was the angry fire of his gaze. "You go," he said at last, "because you fear to stay. It is not the white man you fear, but the Indian you have betrayed. Your tongue lies, your heart lies. You are neither brave nor squaw-man.
She swept the points of the compass with her arm. "And there is so much beyond that I want to know about oh, I feel so ignorant! There is something now that perhaps you could tell me, you have travelled so much." "Let's have it," said he, smiling at her seriousness. She hesitated, at a loss for words, finally blurting out what was in her mind. "My father is a squaw-man, Mr.
The conversation was not of a private nature and in other circumstances he would have joined them, so, on his way to the elevator to find his aunt, he paused a moment to hear what the girl was saying. Since she was speaking emphatically and a lace curtain was the only barrier, Wallie found out without difficulty: "I have no use for a squaw-man." "You mean," Mr.
She gets over big in foreground stuff. Rides like a whirlwind, and as for dramatic work, she can put it over half the leading women in the business that is, in her line of Pocohontas stuff." "Well, why don't you let her stay?" Weary demanded. "She will anyway mama! We're not what you can call over-run with women on this job." "Why don't you make a squaw-man outa Dave?"
Merely a moose pasture, entering the Klondike just above its mouth, and known to old-timers as Rabbit Creek. Now if Daylight or Bob Henderson had recorded claims and shown coarse gold, they'd known there was something in it. But Carmack, the squaw-man! And Skookum Jim! And Cultus Charlie! No, no; that was asking too much.
It was of immediate importance in litigation at Nome, and Ripley, a squaw-man, who lived with his Eskimo wife and children a number of miles down the stream, had been specially engaged to come up and make affidavit to certain matters with which he alone was familiar.
In the window of one of these cabins we saw a face dusky, beautiful, sensitive. Dreamy eyes slumbered under fringes that might have won a song from a Persian poet; admirably proportioned features, delicious lips, almost persuaded us that a squaw-man might in some cases be excusable for his infatuation.
"The daughter of a squaw-man then," he said, and there was in his voice the contempt of the white man for the half-breed. "I'm Jessie McRae," she said proudly. Among the Indians she went by her tribal name of Sleeping Dawn, but always with the whites she used the one her adopted father had given her. It increased their respect for her.
Tom Morse he's a man outa ten thousand, an' I don't know as I'm coverin' enough population at that." "And you're willing to make a squaw-man of him. Oh, Mr. Stearns!" He looked at her severely. "You got no license to talk thataway, Jessie McRae. You're Angus McRae's daughter an' you been to Winnipeg to school. Anyways, after what Lemoine found out " "What did he find out?
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