The Buffalo Runners: A Tale of the Red River Plains
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Robert Michael Ballantyne. The Buffalo Runners: A Tale of the Red River Plains
Chapter One. A Tale of the Red River Plains. Help!
Chapter Two. A Lazy Couple described—and roused
Chapter Three. To the Rescue
Chapter Four. Tells of Love, Duty, Starvation, and Murder
Chapter Five. Saved
Chapter Six. Discord and Deceit, Etcetera
Chapter Seven. Vixen Delivered and Wolves Defeated
Chapter Eight. Stirring Events Described
Chapter Nine. Old Peg
Chapter Ten. Archie and Little Bill do Wonders
Chapter Eleven. Shows some of the Troubles of Pioneer Colonists
Chapter Twelve. Round the Camp-Fires
Chapter Thirteen. Difficulties of Various Kinds overcome
Chapter Fourteen. Treachery in the Air
Chapter Fifteen. A Friend in Need is a Friend indeed
Chapter Sixteen. An Evening in the Camp
Chapter Seventeen. The Buffalo-Hunt
Chapter Eighteen. Adventures of Archie and the Seaman
Chapter Nineteen. Bright Hopes terminate in Furious War
Chapter Twenty. Little Bill becomes a Difficulty
Chapter Twenty One. An Auspicious Beginning and Suspicious Ending
Chapter Twenty Two. Circumventing the Red-Skins
Chapter Twenty Three. A Midnight Chase, and Dan in Extremity
Chapter Twenty Four. A Desperate Situation
Chapter Twenty Five. Adventures of Fergus and his Friends
Chapter Twenty Six. Home-Coming and Bargaining
Chapter Twenty Seven. Visit from Sioux brought to a disastrous Close
Chapter Twenty Eight. Very Perplexing Interviews with Little Bill
Chapter Twenty Nine. The Fishery Disasters
Chapter Thirty. The Trial for Murder
Chapter Thirty One. Retribution
Chapter Thirty Two. Suffering and its Results
Chapter Thirty Three. Matrimonial Plans and Prospects
Chapter Thirty Four. A New Disaster
Chapter Thirty Five. The Last
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François La Certe was seated on the floor of his hut smoking a long clay pipe beside an open wood fire when Fergus McKay approached. His wife was seated beside him calmly smoking a shorter pipe with obvious enjoyment.
The man was a Canadian half-breed. His wife was an Indian woman. They were both moderately young and well matched, for they thoroughly agreed in everything conceivable—or otherwise. In the length and breadth of the Settlement there could not have been found a lazier or more good-natured or good-for-nothing couple than La Certe and his spouse. Love was, if we may venture to say so, the chief element in the character of each. Love of self was the foundation. Then, happily, love of each other came next. Rising gracefully, the superstructure may be described as, love of tobacco, love of tea, love of ease, and love of general comfort, finishing off with a top-dressing, or capital, of pronounced, decided, and apparently incurable love of indolence. They had only one clear and unmistakable hatred about them, and that was the hatred of work. They had a child about four years of age which was like-minded—and not unlike-bodied.
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La Certe was still standing in a state of hesitancy, troubled by a strong desire to help his friend, and a stronger desire to spare himself, when he was thrown somewhat off his wonted balance by the sudden reappearance of Dechamp, leading, or rather supporting, a man.
Need we say that it was Fergus McKay, almost blind and dumb from exhaustion, for the parting from Dan Davidson which we have mentioned had proved to be the last straw which broke them both down, and it is probable that the frozen corpse of poor Dan would have been found next day on the snow, had he not been accidentally met by Dechamp, and taken in charge by the Indian Okématan. Fergus, having a shorter way to go, and, perhaps, possessing a little more vitality or endurance, had just managed to stagger to La Certe’s hut when he encountered the same man who, an hour previously, had met and saved his companion further down the Settlement.
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