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A big burly Swede came forward from the miner's tent. "Are you one of the new settlers?" asked Wayland. "Yaw! A gott pig varm! Tra vor years mak' pig money liffin' y'ere! Mae voman, Ae send her vork citie; Ae build mae house y're!" "All these children yours?" "Yaw!" The man smiled bigly, incredulous that any one could doubt. "Have you filed for a homestead for each of them?" "Yaw!"
Merrick and Major Doyle, while he and Wampus would bunk in the storeroom. "I haf much blankets," he said; "dere vill be no troubles to keep varm." Afterward they sat before the fire and by the dim lights of the kerosene lamps chatted together of the day's adventures.
"Zee boy vas always lucky," remarked Scholtz; "zince I began to varm for myself I have not zeen so big a stone." "Ah! Scholtz," returned his friend, "the hotel business has done very well for me, an I don't complain, but if I was young again I'd sell off and have a slap at the `Fields." "Zat vould only prove you vas von fool," said Scholtz quietly. "I believe it would," returned George.
"You'll haf to put on varm tings if you goin' all de vay to Roaring Rifer Falls." "I'm afraid I have nothing warmer than this," the girl faltered. "I I didn't know it was so very cold here. And and I'm nicely warmed up now, and perhaps I won't feel it so very much." "You stay right here an' vait for me," he told her, and went out of the waiting-room, hurriedly. But he opened the door again.
Do you mean to say that you let those poor devils die like rats while you had potatoes in your cabin, fresh ones? Man! Man! The juice of every potato was worth a life. You're lying, Klusky." "I ain't. No, I ain't. I hate them! I said they should crawl on their bellies to me. Yes, and I should wring the money out. A hundred dollars for von potato. I stole them all. Ha! ha! and I kept them varm.
We do not require it for health, neither do we for sickness. Let us throw it away, my friends; it is a dangerous and deceitful foe." "Mais, monsieur," interposed Gibault with a rueful countenance; "you speak de trooth; but though hims be dangereux an' ver' bad for drink oftin, yet ven it be cold vedder, it doo varm de cokils of de hart!" Big Waller laughed vociferously at this.
Las' night we 'ear de wolfs 'untin' along dem 'ardwood ridges, back of de river; it ees always sign of big cole. And de river she crack awful, and de trees dey split like guns shoot. Glad you come an' get varm, Mees." Madge looked about her, after she had smiled at the woman in thanks.
I went and dug up every bit of my cellar, and, I do declare, I never got a single varm." My friend laughed very heartily at this "Yankee diggin," but at the same time kindly informed his neighbour of the method he pursued, to provide worms for winter-fishing.
For a second she stared at the young woman on the toboggan, but her civility came at once uppermost and she smiled pleasantly, and rushed up to help Madge arise, brushing off some of the snow that had fallen on her from the trees. "Come inside quick. I have it good hot in de house. You all perished wid dat cole, Mees. Now you get varm again and I make tea tout de suite."
The man smiled more pleased than ever, indicating the numerous olive branches by a wave of his hand. "Gott gutt pig varm! Pat, Pat Prydges . . . he sae he pay mae voman, one-huntred; mae, two huntred; mae chil'en . . ." he smiled again, bigly and blandly, "mabbee, five, ten. Yaw ?" "One hundred and sixty acres each: twelve hundred acres for the kids, not one of age, a quarter section to the man!"
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