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Updated: June 18, 2025
She was on the point of exclaiming "Father!" when Peter's great black paw extinguished her mouth, and was not removed till they were out of danger. "You's like all de rest ob de womans," said the negro, as they hurried through the streets; "awrful dif'cult to manidge. Come 'long, we'll go home and hab a talk ober it." Hester was too miserable to reply.
The Cacique came foorth to receiue him two crossebow shot from the towns in a chaire, which his principall men carried on their shoulders, sitting vpon a cushion, and couered with a garment of Marterns, of the fashion and bignes of a womans huke: hee had on his head a diadem of feathers, and round about him many Indians playing vpon flutes, and singing.
Lechford in his note-book refers to a "womans pillion" lost on the Hopewell. A pillion was a cushion strapped on behind a man's saddle, and from it sometimes hung a small platform or double stirrup on which a woman rider could rest her feet. One horse was sometimes made also to carry two men riding astride.
In the west window of a womans' club next door one of the members stood looking out at this building. Behind her at a tea-table three other women sat talking. For some moments their conversation had had a plaintive if not an actually rebellious tone.
"This sounds good to me, Abe," he said, and handed the letter to his partner. It read as follows: 4042 PROSPECT AVE., September 18/08. Gents: Seeing your ad in to days Record and in reply would beg to state am a first class, womans outer garment salesman selling only to the high class trade.
"Yes, Geo'giana," returned Peter, with much humility, "I could suffer great deal more'n dat for your sake; but dere's no sich t'ings as little whippin's know'd ob in dis yar town. W'en de lash am goin' he usu'lly makes de hair fly. Moreober, dey whip womans as well as mans, an' if he was to took de bit out ob your pretty shoulder, I couldn't suffer dat, you know.
Beaver says this roused his indignation to such a pitch that he stopped, turned around, and replied, "Maybe so; s'pose three or four of you Injuns come up here alone, I'll show you if I'ze old womans." They did not, however, accept the challenge, and Beaver rode off.
"You shall judge for yourself," he said, "if it is not worth the cost. If her eyes satisfy me Feench shall learn to see to-day. You shall stand by, you obstinate womans, and judge if it is goot to add shock and agitation to the exhaustions and irritabilities and bedevilments of all sorts which our poor Miss must suffer in learning to see, after being blind for all her life.
"Me is Softswan, daughter of the great chief Bounding Bull," replied the girl, with a look of pride when she mentioned her father, which drew a slight smile from the stranger. "But Softswan has white blood in her veins," he said; "and why does she sometimes speak in the language of the pale-face?" "My mother," returned the girl in a low, sad tone, "was pale-face womans from the Saskatchewan.
Upon which she not only eat thereof herself, but made her husband eat also, which brought them both under the heavenly displeasure." Here Friday expressed a great concern: Ah, poor mans! cried he, naughty womans! naughty devil! make God not love de mans, made mans like devil himself.
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