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It also freed Winklemann's spirit to some extent, and called it back to life, for he exclaimed, "Vat is dat?" in a tone of faint but decided surprise. "Here, lay hold of my neck," said Lambert, in a peremptory voice. Winklemann obeyed. Lambert exerted all his strength and heaved.
"Here, have a drink of beer first," said the host, pouring out a foaming glass. Warder shook his head. Winklemann remarked that, "beer vas goot, ver goot, but they had been used to vatter of late." "Ah!" he added, after devouring half a slice of bread while waiting for Cora to prepare another; "blessed brod an' booter!
In his eagerness the canoe overturned, and he fell into her arms and the water at the same time. It was a joyful though awkward meeting. Much water could not quench the love wherewith the poor creature strained Michel to her heart. Winklemann came up in time to rescue both, and dragged them to the door-step of the floating hut, the door of which he burst open with a single kick, and sprang in.
"Madam," answered the gallant Winklemann, with a perplexed look, "you is vere goot, bot de gale vill be rise qvickly, an' I dares not leaf mine moder vidout protection." "Oh! but just stay for an hour or two," entreated Mrs Cockran, "and show the people how to go on with the stage. Perhaps my husband may return sooner than we expect.
Both canoes were soon got ready; blankets and pillows were spread in the centre of each. Mrs Winklemann was lifted carefully into one; Daddy, as carefully, into the other. Old Liz quietly took her seat in the bow of Daddy's canoe; her son sat down in the stern, while Herr Winklemann took charge of that which contained his mother.
"No fear of my forgetting the mother of the man who is helping to search for my dear boy," returned Ravenshaw, "besides, old Liz is not without friends. Both Louis and Winklemann have promised to keep their eyes on her."
At supper Herr Winklemann was quieter than usual, and rather cross. His propensity to tumble seemed to be a sore subject with him, both as to body and mind. He made more than one cutting remark to Victor during the meal. After supper pipes were of course lighted, and conversation flowed freely. The only two who did not smoke were Ian Macdonald and, strange to say, Winklemann.
In one of these scattered groups were Herr Winklemann and Baptiste Warder the latter no longer a captain, his commission having lapsed with the breaking up of the spring hunt. The plains were covered with the first snows. The party were encamped on a small eminence whence a wide range of country could be seen.
Great, therefore, was her satisfaction when Herr Winklemann appeared in his canoe with a request for a barrel of flour. "You shall have one," said Mrs Cockran, "and anything else you may require; but pray do not leave me to-night. I can give you a comfortable bed, and will let you go the moment my husband returns. I fully expect him this evening."
"What you say iss true, Martha. Just pefore breakfast I met that Cherman crater, Winklemann, ridin' to the mission-house for help. The ice would pe scrapin' the end of his gardin, he was tellin' me, an' if the ruver would pe risin' another fut it would come into the house.
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