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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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BUT THIS THIS IS YOUR DAUGHTER, STAMMERED THE PRIEST IN AMAZEMENT. Perhaps so. Who knows? repliedthe little man. And what will you do with it afteryou have found it, Jean ? they persisted.Surely you will never be able to spendsuch a great amount? I will give it to the boy, Jules, re-plied Le Bossu. He is at work inMouton and is doing well. Some dayhe will make a fine man. And so the search for the gold wenton, while the hunchback spent long, silent hours in the cabin and the negroesdug beneath the trees. And then, onedark night, a cow of Mr. Gordons fellinto a freshly dug pit and broke her leg.When the old man discovered it thefollowing morning he was in despair.There was no way in which he couldhave been responsible for the matter,yet to his excited imagination the blamewould fall upon him alone. He wouldbe forced to pay for the cow, which tohim would be little worse than death. 615 6i6 THE OUTING MAGAZINE
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THERE WAS ONLY THE DULL GLOW OF THE FIRE WHERE OLD ANDRE SAT AT HIS MEAL OF RICE AND MILK. Cudgeling his brain for a way out ofthe difficulty, he suddenly rememberedthat he had seen a negro prowling aboutthe woodland the night before, a short,squat negro, who had seemed strangelylike the one that they called Booqui, thepossum, at Landry. Booqui lived upon the outskirts of thevillage, and although no one had everbeen able to prove anything against him,it was said that he was bad. Twicehad he been suspected of murder, andthere was little doubt that he was athief also, since, although he spent hisdays in idleness, he lived upon the fat ofthe land. Most people were afraid ofhim, for, despite his short stature, hewas as strong as two men, with a sul-len, brutal nature that never forgot orforgave a wrong. But of all this old Andre, in his ter-ror, took no account. Going straight tothe overseer, he reported the matter,naming Booqui as the one who had dugthe pit. When the overseer in turn mad

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