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Updated: June 19, 2025
When she ceased for that time, the Squaw-who-has-dreams was saying: "An' as night fell, Moh-kwa, the Bear, called to me from his canyon, an' said for me to come an' he would show me where the great treasure of fire-water was buried for you who are the Raven.
Or for Murillo, the Indian, impudent though harmless, full of fancies and fire-water? Or for the return of the whale-boats, with their beautiful lateen-sails? Or for the gathering of the Neapolitan fishermen down under the old Custom House, where they sat at evening looking off upon the Bay, and perchance dreaming of Italy and all that enchanted coast?
No, I've got to make sure, jump 'em, and tie 'em up by finding the goods on the wagons." "Fat chance," speculated Tom. "That's where you come in." "Oh, I come in there, do I? I begin to hear Old Man Trouble knockin' at my door like you promised. Break it kinda easy. Am I to go up an' ask Bully West where he keeps his fire-water cached? Or what?" "Yes. Only don't mention to him that you're asking.
"They lay all their trouble to fire-water an' they're right. If the cat jumps the wrong way an' they go on the war-path, ye got to look out." "I ain't no way skeered," was Scott's answer. He had a hoarse, damp voice that suggested the sound of rum gurgling out of a jug. His red face indicated that he was himself too fond of the look and taste of fire-water.
Repression and mystery, he considered wholesome for girls; and he considered the enlightening of them to some extent a prudential measure for their defence; and premature instruction is a fire-water to their wild-in-woods understanding; and histrionic innocence is no doubt the bloom on corruption; also the facts of current human life, in the crude of the reports or the cooked of the sermon in the newspapers, are a noxious diet for our daughters; whom nevertheless we cannot hope to be feeding always on milk: and there is a time when their adorable pretty ignorance, if credibly it exists out of noodledom, is harmful: but how beautiful the shining simplicity of our dear young English girls!
To these forts the Indian hunters bring their furs at periodical seasons, and receive fire-arms and ammunition, tobacco, blankets, hatchets, knives, and other articles in return; and too often, also, the deadly "fire-water." The fort being finished, the hunters were sent off in parties in different directions to search for game either for food, or for the furs of the animals.
Surely they would revel in things dear to the heart of an Indian when the robes were carted to the Hudson Bay Store. The meat was feeling all right in its way when the stomach was lean, but at the Fort, at the time of giving up the robes Waugh! God of the fallen Indians! how they would revel in the fierce fire-water, the glorious fire-water!
Torrance watched them with amazement "Hi say!" The Indians stalked on. "I might be able to scare up a bottle of fire-water " No response. Torrance sank into a chair and drew his sleeve across his forehead. "Talkative? By hickory, they reek with it. They sure got my goat.
"That the gods have sent him a messenger to them; that the fire he brings " he was handing a musket to the chief "will smite the Indians' enemy from the earth; that the bullet is magic to outrace the fleetest runner" this as M. Radisson fired a shot into mid-air that sent the Indians into ecstasies of childish wonder "that the bottle in his hands contains death, and if the Indians bring their hunt to the white-man, the white-man will never take the cork out except to let death fly at the Indians' enemy" he lifted a little phial of poison as he spoke "that the Indian need never feel cold nor thirst, now that the white-man has brought fire-water!"
Senegalese and Turcos with rolling eyes and wreathed smiles sat at the tables in the Cafe de la Paix, paying extravagantly for their fire-water, and exalted by this luxury of life after the muddy hell of the trenches and the humid climate which made them cough consumptively between their gusts of laughter.
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