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I'd laid out my trappin' arrangements on a pretty large scale, and was doin' a little better than midlin', when I found that my traps were sprung by some animal that helped himself to the bait, without leavin' his hide as a consideration for settin' of 'em.
"Ther up-country, whar I has been trappin', huntin', prospectin', and killin' a Injin or two see!" "And now you wish to turn stage-driver?" "If it pays what they told me at Fort Faraway I does." "The pay is good; but have you no references?" "Yas." "Where are they?" "Here." The old man put his hands upon his revolvers and drew them with a lightninglike motion that surprised the lookers-on.
"Yer trappin' must have been mighty poor, then, Wild Bill, for the last month, or the Dutchman at the clearin' has watered his liquor by a wrong measure for once. But ef ye be sober, why do ye stand there whoopin' like an Indian, when the ambushment is onkivered and the bushes be alive with the knaves? Why don't ye come into the cabin, like a sensible man, ef ye be sober?
"So you won't return with us, young man?" said Macgregor to March Marston as he mounted his horse. "I'm in want of a stout young fellow, and you'll like the life." "I thank ye, sir, for your good opinion," returned March; "but my mind's made up: I'll stick by my comrades; I like trappin', but I don't like tradin' though I'm obliged to you for bein' so pressin' all the same."
"I know him," interrupted March; "Gibault Noir Black Gibault, as they sometimes call him. Am I right?" "Right, lad; that's two. Then there's Hawkswing, the Injun whose wife and family were all murdered by a man of his own tribe, and who left his people after that an' tuck to trappin' with the whites; that's three.
Jimmy looked at Dannie's mud-covered, wet clothing, his blood-stained mittens and coat back, and the dripping bag he had rested on the bridge. "I've got some music in me head, and some action in me feet," he said, "but I guess God forgot to put much sintimint into me heart. The breath of spring niver got so strong with me that I could smell it above a bag of muskrats and me trappin' clothes."
If there's them that thinks rabbits looks pretty jumpin' around, why, no doubt they do. 'Tisn't iverybody that's trappin', you'll moind. If you was a horse now, you'd be called strong in the mouth, and you'd need a firm hand on the lines.
He kep' store then close by whar we lived, and he give her most anythin' she wanted. She called it 'credit'. "One day Bailey went off to Montreal, where Bergstein had a place fixed up for her. I'd been off trappin' up Big Shanty, and when I come back home next night she was gone. She didn't come back for most a week, and when she come I see she was drunk. Bailey come back the next day.
"Rabbits is for trappin'," he said stubbornly. "Well, well," thought the widow, "I'll have to be waitin' a bit. But I'll be makin' something out of Jim yet." Then she turned to Mike. "And how are you comin' on at the Gineral's?" she inquired. "It's hopin' I am you're watchin' him close and larnin' to be loike him." "I'm trying, mother," was the modest answer. Mrs. O'Callaghan nodded approvingly.
He was off in a fortnight, trappin' dingoes in the bush, or some such nonsense. He's for no more use than than a bumble bee, isn't Ted Reilly; nor never will be. Well, he was of a good deal of practical use to us, the storekeeper notwithstanding; but I admit that there was a notable absence of 'Systum' about the man.
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