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A Man in the Open

by Roger S. Pocock

2023-03-07 21:19:32

Excerpt.... He tucked me up warm on the komatik, he hitched up the huskies, and mushed, way up the tickle, and through the soft bush snow, and at sunup we made his winter tilt on Torngak Creek. We put in the winter there, furring, and every ... Read more

Excerpt.... He tucked me up warm on the komatik, he hitched up the huskies, and mushed, way up the tickle, and through the soft bush snow, and at sunup we made his winter tilt on Torngak Creek. We put in the winter there, furring, and every time he came home from the round of traps, he'd sell me all the pelts. I was the company, so he ran up a heap of debt. Then he made me little small snow-shoes and skin clothes like his, and a real beaver cap with a tail. I was surely proud when he took me hunting fur and partridges. I was with him to the fishing, in the fall we'd hunt, all winter we'd trap till it was time for the sealing, and only two or three times in a year we'd be back to mother. We'd build her a stand-up wigwam of fire-wood, so it wouldn't be lost in the snow, we'd tote her grub from the fort, the loads of fish, and the fall salmon.

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File size233.946 KB
Print pages378
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1112425189
(1865-1941) British soldier, writer, adventurer, member of the North West Mounted Police, and founder of the Legion of the Frontiersmen. After serving on the training ship Wellesley, Pocock went to w...

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