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I hung round fer a spell till the smith hed gone off an' I got into his place an' rid me of the handcuffs. 'Twas a job, but I wasn't kotched at it an' I made myself free." Followed the story of his wanderings and his hardships and his coming to Lone River and setting out his traps. "In them days there weren't no law ag'in' trappin' beaver.
And in the course of time it weakens the old chap, for he's losing blood all the time." "That's kind of cruel; but go on, Uncle Jim," Owen remarked. "I guess you're about right, son," said the other, "and there's lots that's cruel about this trappin' business. But the women must have their furs, and ever since Adam's time I reckon the animals has had to supply covering for human beings.
"You give your parole," said Lajeunais, "an' go North wiz me on the great huntin' an' trappin'. We will go North, North, North, beyon' the Great Lakes, an' to other lakes almost as great, a thousan', two thousan' miles beyon' the home of white men to trap the silver fox, the pine marten an' the other furs which bring much gold.
"You see, for nigh ten years after I left Grantham Mills, I'd stuck closer'n a burr to my business, till I began to feel I knew 'most all there was to know about trainin' animals. Men do git that kind of a fool feelin' sometimes about lots of things harder than animal-trainin'. Well, nothin' would do me but I should go back to my old business of trappin' the beasts, only with one big difference.
"Counts six," he continued, muttering to himself while placing the scalp in his belt; "six at fifty three hunder shiners for 'Pash har; cuss beaver trappin'! says I." Having secured the bleeding trophy, he wiped his knife upon the hair of one of the buffaloes, and proceeded to cut a small notch in the woodwork of his gun, alongside five others that had been carved there already.
Then he tried gold-diggin', but could make nothin' of it; engaged in a fur company, but soon left it; an' then tried his hand at trappin' on his own account but gave it up 'cause he could catch nothin'. When he fell in with our band he was redooced to two rabbits an' a prairie hen, wi' only three charges o' powder in his horn, an' not a drop o' lead.
"I hadn't gone far when I came to a place pretty much like this, as I said before, and when I was lookin' at the view for I'm fond of a fine view, it takes a man's mind off trappin' an' victuals somehow I heerd a most awful screech, an' then another. A moment later an' the ornithologist busted out o' the bushes with his long legs goin' like the legs of a big water-wagtail.
The giant shook his head in vigorous denial. "No! Money? Pouf! She come, she go. But, you see plenty people drowned if somebody don' tak' dem t'rough, so I stay. Dis winter I build myse'f nice cabin an' do li'l trappin'. Nex' summer I pilot again." "Aren't you going to Dawson?" Pierce was incredulous; he could not understand this fellow.
Terry was agitated, but not so much so as his friend. "Why, my dear boy, it's not so bad as that," he said feelingly; "do ye not moind that whin the gintlemen go to trappin' and huntin' they turn the horses loose to graze? The spalpeens have coom along and run off with the same." "Do you think so?" asked Fred, looking up yearningly for the grain of comfort that his companion was able to give.
And he's goin' to try to get in here, before midnight, tonight, and what's more, he's goin' to find it uncommonly easy to do!" "You mean you'll entice him and trap him here?" "No, I won't lay a finger on him. You'll do the enticin', and he'll do the trappin'! I won't even be round to see till afterward!" "What do you mean by that?"
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