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Seated at his desk, through the open windows would drift whiffs of strong tobacco and rumbling voices, and he could not help catching snatches of what the Yukoners talked. "D'ye recollect that Koyokuk rush in the early nineties?" he would hear one say. "Well, him an' me was pardners then, tradin' an' such. We had a dinky little steamboat, the Blatterbat. He named her that, an' it stuck.
"Pretty fair, but it will take a good while to make our fortunes. We own this team, and that's about all we do own." "A sort of an express wagon, isn't it?" "Yes." "Ain't goin' into the express business, be you?" "Probably not. We bought it on speculation." "That reminds me of old Sam Bailey in our town. He was always tradin' horses. Sometimes he made money, and then again he didn't.
"Father," she asked anxiously, "why do people look down on us so?" He faced her with a worried look, as if he feared that she might guess at something which he wished should remain hidden. "They say I made my money tradin' in niggers," he replied, at length. "Well, what of it? Didn't I have the right?" "Are you sure there's nothing else?" He seemed definitely startled. "Girl, what makes you ask?"
I've turned it every spring for forty year. Bought it when I was a young fellow, jest married to Maria. Shouldered a big debt on it; but I always loved these slopin' fields, an' my share of this old Wabash hasn't been for sale nor tradin' any time this past forty year. I've hung on to it like grim death, for it's jest that much o' Paradise I'm plumb sure of. First time I plowed this field, Mr.
"G'long," said the trader, as if he would have said it before if he had thought of it. But the horse had taken but a few steps when another voice greeted him. "Howaryer, Monroe?" said Reuben Granger. "Whoa," said Monroe. "Howaryer?" "Been down to the Centre?" asked Reuben. "Yare." "Got some calves in there, I see." "Wal, yes; been doin' some tradin'." Reuben nodded. "Ain't any news, I take it?"
Seems if he might wait till a rainy day, 'r do it evenin's. I never did believe in horse tradin' anyhow." "Have y' come back to stay, Willie?" asked the old lady. "Well-it's hard-tellin'," answered Will, looking at Agnes. "Well, Agnes, ain't you goin' to get no dinner? I'm 'bout ready fr dinner. We must git to church eariy today. Elder Wheat is goin' to preach an' they'll be a crowd.
"Here resolution almost faints!" wrote one. A general requisition was made on the scant stores Bridger had hurried through. To their surprise, Bridger himself made no attempt at frontier profits. "Chardon," commanded the moody master of the post to his head clerk, "take down your tradin' bar an' let my people in.
'When I take a hen in a boat, I'll take a hen, says he." "Did ye hear about Fluke's tradin' cows?" "No." Meanwhile Brother Skates had been standing listening, patient, interested, but now recovered himself, blushing, in his new rubber boots. "Can't one of the Basins start 'He will carry you through'?" he entreated.
Me live for years in de forests an' plains an' mountains ob Callyforny huntin' an fightin'. Oh, dem were de happy days! After dat me find a wife what I lub berry moche, den me leave her for short time an' go wid tradin' party to de coast. Here meet wid a cap'n of ship, wot wos a big raskil. Him 'tice me aboord an' sail away.
"Ay," said Job, "ye'll be a fine buccaneer, only ye should have struck with the butt. I heard the click." The pirate seemed to hold no grudge for what had occurred and sat down beside Jeremy in a friendly fashion. "Free tradin' ain't what it was," he confided.
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