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Alex Philip. The Painted Cliff
The Painted Cliff
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CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
“Pass along the hootch an’ we’ll all have a shot, Pass along the hootch an’ we’ll all have a shot, Pass along the hootch an’ we’ll all have a shot, While we go marchin’ on. Glory, glory hal-a lu-yah, Glory—”
CHAPTER III
“Come, klootchman, fly with Shorty. An’ leave your bark canoe. We’ll take a hyas Klattawa. Into the Cariboo. Where there’s plenty grouse an’ mowitsh, Where the silver rainbows play; We will iskum tenas moosum. When daylight fades away. No more am I to wander. A’lookin’ for a stake. We’ll build a tenas cabin. On the shore of Canim Lake.”
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
“ ‘The saddest words o’ tongue or pen, The saddest o’ these, it might have bin.’ ”
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
“I met a big rough-neck on the Cariboo trail, His eyes were bunged an’ his face was all pale; One ear was a-hangin’ an’ his nose was bust in, An’ the way the cuss hobbled was a crime an’ a sin! ‘Oh, tillikum!’ says he, ‘you see me this way ’Cause I said ‘You’re a liar’ to Shorty McCrae.’ ”
“So stop, look an’ listen to what I now say: Don’t start any ructions with Shorty McCrae.”
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
“Oh, Shorty, said ol’ Snag-tooth-Sal, I beless the very day. That I became your klootchman. In the merry month o’ May “When you hit the dust that made you rich, You didn’t throw me down; But we walked the streets together. In ol’ Vancouver town.”
CHAPTER XI
CHAPTER XII
CHAPTER XIII
CHAPTER XIV
“Pass along the hootch an’ we’ll all have a shot, Pass along the hootch an’ we’ll all have a shot, Pass along the hootch an’ we’ll all have a shot. As we go marchin’ on. Glory, glory halle-lu-yah, Glory, glory halle-lu-yah. Glory, glory halle-lu-yah, Glory, glory halle-lu-yah, As we go marchin’ on.”
CHAPTER XV
CHAPTER XVI
CHAPTER XVII
CHAPTER XVIII
CHAPTER XIX
One ear was a-hangin’ an’ his nose was bust in, An’ the way the cuss hobbled was a crime an’ a sin! ‘Oh, tillikum!’ says he, ‘you see me this way ’Cause I said ‘You’re a liar’ to Shorty McCrae.’ ” “So stop, look an’ listen to what I now say: Don’t start any ructions with Shorty McCrae.”
