A Mating in the WildsWard, Lock & Company, 1920 - 318 pages |
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... half a mile away , and for a moment , ceasing his paddling , he looked at it doubtfully , his brow pucker- ing over his grave eyes . The canoe began to drift backward in the current , but he made no effort to check it , instead , he sat ...
... half a mile away , and for a moment , ceasing his paddling , he looked at it doubtfully , his brow pucker- ing over his grave eyes . The canoe began to drift backward in the current , but he made no effort to check it , instead , he sat ...
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... half - defined path between the willows , caught sight of the singer -a native girl of amazing beauty . She wore a tunic of beaded caribou - skin , which fitting closely revealed rather than concealed the lines of her lithe young figure ...
... half - defined path between the willows , caught sight of the singer -a native girl of amazing beauty . She wore a tunic of beaded caribou - skin , which fitting closely revealed rather than concealed the lines of her lithe young figure ...
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... half an hour , having lit a pipe , he strolled towards the trading - post . Entering the Square of the enclosure he looked nonchalantly about him . Two men , half - breeds , were sitting on a roughly - made bench outside the store ...
... half an hour , having lit a pipe , he strolled towards the trading - post . Entering the Square of the enclosure he looked nonchalantly about him . Two men , half - breeds , were sitting on a roughly - made bench outside the store ...
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... half - breeds leapt from the bench and began to run towards the wharf . John Rodwell , the factor and his wife , emerged from the store and hurried in the same direction , followed by the Indian who had been bartering . Two other men ap ...
... half - breeds leapt from the bench and began to run towards the wharf . John Rodwell , the factor and his wife , emerged from the store and hurried in the same direction , followed by the Indian who had been bartering . Two other men ap ...
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... half - way there when the sound of a thin cheer reached him from the wharf . He turned and looked round . His change of position had given him an enlarged view of the river , and distant perhaps a quarter of a mile or so away he saw a ...
... half - way there when the sound of a thin cheer reached him from the wharf . He turned and looked round . His change of position had given him an enlarged view of the river , and distant perhaps a quarter of a mile or so away he saw a ...
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Page 58 - He rose quickly to his feet in order to get a better view of the object which had suddenly floated into his line of vision.