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Excerpt: ...a wink with such indignant contempt that I had to leave him to take his chance. The fire burnt itself out before daylight, and we felt as if we had made more fuss than was necessary, when Mr. C-- and the men arrived after four hours'' hard paddling. About Ingolf the fires raged so fiercely that the engineers there moved all their valuable instruments and papers into the canoes, and left the shanty to its fate; a change in the wind, however, saved it, driving the flames back when the walls were scorching. CHAPTER XI. Irish Wit-Bears?-Death on the Red Pine Lake-A Grave in the Catholic Cemetery-The First Dog-train-A Christmas Fête-Compulsory Temperance-Contraband Goods-The Prisoner wins the Day-Whisky on the Island-The Smuggler turned Detective-A Fatal Frolic-"Mr. K--''s Legs". The chimneys in Mr. C--''s house were built of mud, and one of them, which smoked whenever a fire was lighted, had to be pulled down and rebuilt. The workmen, who were of various nationalities-Carrière an Indian, old Cahill an Irishman, a Scotchman, and a Mennonite, who thumped the mud mortar with a dogged perseverance that was quite amusing-were all engaged on this chimney. One day I heard Carrière contradict an assertion of Cahill''s with regard to the work, calling it "a d--d lie!" Stepping back from the foot of the ladder on which Carrière stood, the old Irishman lifted his straw hat with the air of a courtier, and replied politely, "Carrière, ye''re a gintleman! an'' that''s another." Before the chimney was quite finished, Mr. and Mrs. C-- went down to Kuwatin to spend a few days, leaving me with the maid and old Cahill to superintend the house-cleaning; and many a half-hour''s amusement had I, listening to the old man''s reminiscences of Ireland. When he found that I knew and took an interest in many of the people in his own country his delight was unbounded. The height of his ambition seemed to be to have "tin min undher him,"...
Excerpt: ...a wink with such indignant contempt that I had to leave him to take his chance. The fire burnt itself out before daylight, and we felt as if we had made more fuss than was necessary, when Mr. C-- and the men arrived after four hours'' hard paddling. About Ingolf the fires raged so fiercely that the engineers there moved all their valuable instruments and papers into the canoes, and left the shanty to its fate; a change in the wind, however, saved it, driving the flames back when the walls were scorching. CHAPTER XI. Irish Wit-Bears?-Death on the Red Pine Lake-A Grave in the Catholic Cemetery-The First Dog-train-A Christmas Fête-Compulsory Temperance-Contraband Goods-The Prisoner wins the Day-Whisky on the Island-The Smuggler turned Detective-A Fatal Frolic-"Mr. K--''s Legs". The chimneys in Mr. C--''s house were built of mud, and one of them, which smoked whenever a fire was lighted, had to be pulled down and rebuilt. The workmen, who were of various nationalities-Carrière an Indian, old Cahill an Irishman, a Scotchman, and a Mennonite, who thumped the mud mortar with a dogged perseverance that was quite amusing-were all engaged on this chimney. One day I heard Carrière contradict an assertion of Cahill''s with regard to the work, calling it "a d--d lie!" Stepping back from the foot of the ladder on which Carrière stood, the old Irishman lifted his straw hat with the air of a courtier, and replied politely, "Carrière, ye''re a gintleman! an'' that''s another." Before the chimney was quite finished, Mr. and Mrs. C-- went down to Kuwatin to spend a few days, leaving me with the maid and old Cahill to superintend the house-cleaning; and many a half-hour''s amusement had I, listening to the old man''s reminiscences of Ireland. When he found that I knew and took an interest in many of the people in his own country his delight was unbounded. The height of his ambition seemed to be to have "tin min undher him,"...
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