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Title: George Stanley:
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Geikie, John Cunningham, 1824-1906, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: London, New York, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ica—every Indian, in any part, understanding,or, at least, acknowledging, it. A grunt on the partof our visitor conveyed his return of the courtesy,and was presently followed by, Cnoo, sell, good—you buy? Eobert, thus addressed, willinglyenough entered into temptation, having determined,some time before, to buy one. Like everyone elsein Canada, he seemed naturally to think that badEnglish makes good Indian, and pursued thedialogue somewhat as follows:—Eobert—Goodcnoo? Indian, with a grunt, Good, makingsundry signs with his hands, to show how it skimmedthe water, and how easily it could be steered, bothqualities being most sadly deficient, as he musthave known. Eobert—What for you ask?Indian, holding up eight fingers, and nodding to-wards them, dollar, making, immediately after, animitation of smoking, to stand for an additional valuein tobacco. Eobert—Why you sell? Indian—No answer, but a grunt, which might either hide awish to decline a difficult question, by pretending
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Spearing Fish. 95 ignorance, or anything else we like to suppose. Thenfollowed more dumb-show, to let us know what atreasure he was parting with. My brother found ithopeless to get any information from him, nothingbut grunts and an odd word or two of English fol-lowing a number of inquiries. After a time thebargain was struck, and having received the moneyand the tobacco, he and his spouse departed, laugh-ing in their sleeve, I dare say, at their success ingetting a canoe well sold which needed two or threemen to propel it at a reasonable rate. It was with this affair we used to go out on ourspearing expeditions. A cresset, like those used inold times to hold watchmens lights, and a spearwith three prongs and a long handle, were all theapparatus required. The cresset was fixed in thebows of the canoe, and a knot of pitch-pine kindledin it, threw a bright light over and through thewater. Only very still nights would do, for if therewas any ripple the fish could not be seen. When itwas

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