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id: 6178
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 5.
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  Irene in Quebec, were left to guard the place of treasure, until, to the sound of the laughing spring, there should come many men and much machinery, and the sinking of shafts in the earth, and the making, of riches. But St. Jean was far from the ways of settlement, and there was little food and only one hut, and many things must be done for the Rose Tree Mine in the places where men sell their souls for money; and Antoine and Angelique, French peasants from the parish of Ste.


id: 6184
author: Parker, Gilbert
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title:
  A Romany of the Snows, vol. 5 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre

summary:
  Their names were much more notorious than sweet; and yet in Quebec men laughed as they shrugged their shoulders at them; for as many jovial things as evil were told of Tarboe. When it became known that a dignitary of the Church had been given a case of splendid wine, which had come in a roundabout way to him, men waked in the night and laughed, to the annoyance of their wives; for the same dignitary had preached a powerful sermon against smugglers and the receivers of stolen goods.


id: 6188
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Northern Lights, Volume 3.
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  That's it, dear old man. Where this man had gone none other had been of white men from the Western lands, though from across the wide Pacific, from the Eastern world, adventurers and exiles had once visited what is now known as the Yukon Valley.


id: 6190
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Northern Lights, Volume 5.
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  Men were losing their heads; there was an element of irresponsibility in the new outbreak likely to breed some violent act, which every man of them would lament when sober again. Secret, evilly wise and inhuman, he looked a being apart, whom men might seek for help in dark purposes.


id: 6176
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3.
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  I should have thought-- The Honourable interrupted: To tell you that you are Sir Duke Lawless. Shon, old fellow, come here, said Sir Duke Lawless.


id: 6181
author: Parker, Gilbert
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title:
  A Romany of the Snows, vol. 2 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre

summary:
  Or is it that you think old men are cowards? The devil's games: cards and law-breaking; and you sneer at men who try to bring lost sheep into the fold.


id: 6177
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 4.
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summary:
  Yes, he continued, and I know that you prefer Shon McGann to Pretty Pierre. It was at this point that Shon McGann entered, looked round, nodded to all, and then came forward to the table where Pretty Pierre sat.


id: 30874
author: Brown, Paul Cameron
title: The Land of Look Behind
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  Once dispatched, the three ears lost their kernels giving old women to this day their namesake of beady eyes. So, in an act of mercy, old women and crones were born saving future generations the misery of living too old.


id: 6175
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 2.
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summary:
  The hat and cloak are those of Sergeant Tom, but the voice is that of Jen Galbraith. This Rider of the Plains was Sergeant Thomas Gellatly, familiarly known as Sergeant Tom.


id: 6182
author: Parker, Gilbert
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title:
  A Romany of the Snows, vol. 3 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre

summary:
  'Well, well,' he answered, with a severe look, 'our Company has need of great men for hard tasks.' And no one--is coming? There are men making for the shore, and the fires are burning, but no one is--coming this way. . . .


id: 6174
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 1.
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summary:
  Plans for coming days were talked of, and the laughter of many voices filled the house. When I started Pretty Pierre on his travels, I did not know--nor did he --how far or wide his adventurers and experiences would run.


id: 6180
author: Parker, Gilbert
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title:
  A Romany of the Snows, vol. 1 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre

summary:
  Pierre eyed Macavoy--measured him, as it were, for what he was worth. It can hardly be said that there were two series of Pierre stories.


id: 6183
author: Parker, Gilbert
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title:
  A Romany of the Snows, vol. 4 Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre

summary:
  You are good men. When Gaspard and Pierre looked each other in the eyes they knew that one word between them was as a hundred with other men.


id: 6186
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Northern Lights, Volume 1.
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  I'm for goin' North, far up, where these two-dollar-a-day and hash-and-clothes people ain't come yet. White men had left their Indian wives, but had come back again, and for ever renounced the life of their own nations, and become great chiefs, teaching useful things to their adopted people, bringing up their children as tribesmen--bringing up their children!


id: 6189
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Northern Lights, Volume 4.
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summary:
  Other men had flattered her vanity, had given her a sense of power, had made her understand her possibilities, but nothing more--nothing of what Varley brought with him. But at last came dark days.


id: 6187
author: Parker, Gilbert
title: Northern Lights, Volume 2.
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summary:
  Never in the history of white men had these rapids been ridden at nighttime. The white women of Portage la Drome were too blind, too prejudiced, to see all that she really was, and admiring white men could do little, for Pauline would have nothing to do with them till the women met her absolutely as an equal; and from the other halfbreeds, who intermarried with each other and were content to take a lower place than the pure whites, she held aloof, save when any of them was ill or in trouble.


id: 10164
author: McClung, Nellie L.
title: The Black Creek Stopping-House, and Other Stories
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  Mrs. Corbett baked bread for them each week. The bread is yours, said Mrs. Corbett, sternly; you may have it, but I can't bake any more for you! W'y not? asked Reginald, feeling all at once hungrier than ever.


id: 59220
author: Robinson, F. A. (Frank Alfred)
title: Trail-Tales of Western Canada
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  I take your offer, old man, said the preacher. Moses Evans and other men, who with him made open confession of Jesus Christ, were again and again spat upon and cursed, as they passed along the entry at their daily toil in the mine.


id: 20345
author: Thomson, Edward William
title: Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories
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  De old man is scare ver' bad. Turning, he saw a boat in midstream, where no craft then on the river, except his own skiff, could be safe, unless manned by several good men.


id: 28960
author: Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
title: The Backwoodsmen
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  Mrs. Gammit's Pig I've come to borry yer gun! said Mrs. Gammit, appearing suddenly, a self-reliant figure, at the open door of the barn where Joe Barron sat mending his harness. No, siree! responded Mrs. Gammit with decision.


