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Updated: June 6, 2025
For the details of the tragedy which now occurred we are chiefly indebted to the accounts of John Pritchard, a former Nor'wester, who had settled with his family at the Red River, of Michael Heden, a blacksmith connected with the settlement, and of John Bourke, the colony store-keeper.
In the case of a mistake, as stated, the store-keeper generally makes the explanations, excuses, and so forth, supplementing them afterwards by payment in a suit for damages. Men shop-lifters or, more properly, store thieves pursue an entirely different method, and confine their operations to a far different kind of store.
"Go off about your business!" said the store-keeper, his face red with anger at the language of the reformed man, which he was pleased to consider highly insulting. "I'll see to collecting that bill in a different way from that." By this time Gordon was learning not to be frightened and discouraged at every thing.
Most o' the men was still liable to matrimony. Jabez had an idee in his head, an' it didn't take no ferret to nose it out, neither. He was extra cordial to the store-keeper from Webb Station, an' a young Englishman by the name o' Hawthorn, finally settlin' down to Hawthorn an' playin' him wide open. We had a mighty sociable time, an' whenever we wasn't eatin' we played games.
"I tell him we must have a reliable one, for we know absolutely nothing about the country from here on." "Black or white?" questioned Stacy. "Oh, black, of course. There are no white guides up here. I think this one was out with a government surveying party once," said the store-keeper. "He should do very well, then," nodded the Professor, well pleased.
"On big mountain," indicating Mt. St. Elias with a sweeping gesture. "He won't go until to-morrow. If you want him you will have to wait," the store-keeper informed them. "Then I suppose we shall have to wait," reflected Professor Zepplin. "It may be an excellent idea after all.
Instead, the boy roamed about the store, inspecting and commenting upon saddlery, guns, canned goods, ready-made clothing, and showcase trinkets, his ears alert for every word exchanged by the storekeeper and a chance customer. Presently two cowboys clumped in, joshed with the store-keeper, bought tobacco and ammunition a most usual procedure, and clumped out again.
A few awls to enable him to mend his bark canoe when open water came, and a couple of steel traps, some gun-flints, and, O yes, he had almost forgotten a most essential thing twine to make a net, and some fish-hooks. "It iss a regular outfit you will be wanting," remarked the store-keeper, as he handed over the various articles.
"Then, I can tell you that he is just coming to stay here," returned Charlie, "for he has several waggons with him, and a dozen men. I asked him where he was going to, and he said, to locate himself as a store-keeper at Sweetwater Bluff; but he did not seem inclined to be communicative, so I left him and galloped on to report the news. What d'you think about it?"
Piesse my store-keeper, and with Mr. Stuart and Flood crossed the ranges to the eastward, intending to examine the country between us and the Darling. Immediately on the other side of the range there was a plain of great width, and beyond, at a distance of between 50 and 60 miles, was a range of hills running parallel to those near the camp.
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