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"Listen to that, Pierre. I'll be eternally shivered if he knows what a tobogan ride is!" "Hot shivers it'll be for you, Joey, me boy, and no quinine over the bar aither," said Shon. "Tell him what a tobogan ride is, Pierre." And Pretty Pierre said: "Eh, well, I will tell you. It is like-no, you have the word precise, Joseph. Eh? What?" Pierre then added something in French.
"It's all I know about." "Amen to that divorce," rejoined Shon. "But were it not for the Tobogan Ride we shouldn't have stopped here," said the Honourable; "and where would this meeting have been?" "That alters the case," Sir Duke remarked. "I take back the 'Amen," said Shon.
"Listen to that, Pierre. I'll be eternally shivered if he knows what a tobogan ride is!" "Hot shivers it'll be for you, Joey, me boy, and no quinine over the bar aither," said Shon. "Tell him what a tobogan ride is, Pierre." And Pretty Pierre said: "Eh, well, I will tell you. It is like-no, you have the word precise, Joseph. Eh? What?" Pierre then added something in French.
Jo Gordineer interrupted. "Say, Shon, when'll you be through that tobogan ride of yours? Aint there any end to it?" But Shon was looking with both eyes now at the collaborators, and he sang softly on: "And it's keen as the frost when the summer-time dies, That we rode to the glen and with never a fear." Then he added: "The end's cut off, Joey, me boy; but what's a tobogan ride, annyway?"
"That in your face and the hair aff your head," said Shon; "it's little you know a tobogan ride when you see one. I'll take my share of the grog, by the same token." The Honourable uncorked his flask. Shon threw back his head with a laugh. "For it's rest when the gallop is over, me men! And it's here's to the lads that have ridden their last; And it's here's "
He obtained from the stores of the fur-dealers warm clothes, blankets, and ammunition for the expedition; a small supply of pemican or preserved meat, and a little flour, completed the loading of the light sleigh he was to drag after him over the snow; this tobogan, as the Indians call it, is of a very light structure, and carries a burthen of fifty or sixty pounds weight, with but little labour to him who draws it along.
"That in your face and the hair aff your head," said Shon; "it's little you know a tobogan ride when you see one. I'll take my share of the grog, by the same token." The Honourable uncorked his flask. Shon threw back his head with a laugh. "For it's rest when the gallop is over, me men! And it's here's to the lads that have ridden their last; And it's here's "
C came in from the line with his dog-train four strong beasts drawing a light cariole or covered tobogan, more like a great shoe than anything else the blue and red coat of his Indian runner, Tommy Harper, was much admired by our visitors; and he told us afterwards of their admiration for everything they saw in the house.
Soon the eyes closed, and, with a moan on his lips, his head dropped forward on his arms.... Pierre rose, and, looking at the figure soon to be breathless as the baked meats about it, said: "'Bien, he was not all coward. No." Then he turned and went out into the night. SHON McGANN'S TOBOGAN RIDE
I never heard the song before." "No more you did. And I wish I could see the lad that wrote that song, livin' or dead. If one of ye's will tell me about your tobogan rides, I'll unfold about Farcalladen Rise." Prince Levis passed the liquor. Pretty Pierre, seated on a candle-box, with a glass in his delicate fingers, said: "Eh, well, the Honourable has much language.
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