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    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3.
    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3.
    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3.
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    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3.

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    Gilbert Parker was a late 19th and early 20th century politician and novelist who wrote prodigiously. The British-Canadian's works are still popular in the 21st century.
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    PublisherKrill Press
    Release dateJan 2, 2016
    ISBN9781518357107
    Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3.
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    Gilbert Parker

    Gilbert Parker (1862–1932), also credited as Sir Horatio Gilbert George Parker, 1st Baronet, was a Canadian novelist and British politician. His initial career was in education, working in various schools as a teacher and lecturer. He then traveled abroad to Australia where he became an editor at the Sydney Morning Herald. He expanded his writing to include long-form works such as romance fiction. Some of his most notable titles include Pierre and his People (1892), The Seats of the Mighty and The Battle of the Strong.

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      Pierre and His People - Gilbert Parker

      PIERRE AND HIS PEOPLE: TALES OF THE FAR NORTH. VOLUME 3.

      ..................

      Gilbert Parker

      YURITA PRESS

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      This book is a work of fiction; its contents are wholly imagined.

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      Copyright © 2016 by Gilbert Parker

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      SHON MCGANN’S TOBOGAN RIDE PERE CHAMPAGNE THE SCARLET HUNTER THE STONE

      II

      PERE CHAMPAGNE

      THE SCARLET HUNTER

      THE STONE

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      Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3.

      By

      Gilbert Parker

      Pierre and His People: Tales of the Far North. Volume 3.

      Published by Yurita Press

      New York City, NY

      First published circa 1932

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      SHON MCGANN’S TOBOGAN RIDE PERE CHAMPAGNE THE SCARLET HUNTER THE STONE

      ..................

      SHON McGANN’S TOBOGAN RIDE

      Shon McGann was lying on a pile of buffalo robes in a mountain hut,—an Australian would call it a humpey,—singing thus to himself with his pipe between his teeth. In the room, besides Shon, were Pretty Pierre, Jo Gordineer, the Hon. Just Trafford, called by his companions simply The Honourable, and Prince Levis, the owner of the establishment. Not that Monsieur Levis, the French Canadian, was really a Prince. The name was given to him with a humorous cynicism peculiar to the Rockies. We have little to do with Prince Levis here; but since he may appear elsewhere, this explanation is made.

      Jo Gordineer had been telling The Honourable about the ghost of Guidon Mountain, and Pretty Pierre was collaborating with their host in the preparation of what, in the presence of the Law—that is of the North- West Mounted Police—was called ginger-tea, in consideration of the prohibition statute.

      Shon McGann had been left to himself—an unusual thing; for everyone had a shot at Shon when opportunity occurred; and never a bull’s-eye could they make on him. His wit was like the shield of a certain personage of mythology.

      He had wandered on from verse to verse of the song with one eye on the collaborators and an ear open to The Honourable’s polite exclamations of wonder. Jo had, however, come to the end of his weird tale—for weird it certainly was, told at the foot of Guidon Mountain itself, and in a region of vast solitudes—the pair of chemists were approaching the supreme union of unctuous elements, as The Honourable put it, and in the silence that fell for a moment there crept the words of the singer:

      Jo Gordineer interrupted. Say, Shon, when’ll you be through that tobogan ride of yours? Aint there any end to it?

      But Shon was looking with both eyes now at the collaborators, and he sang softly on:

      Then he added: The end’s cut off, Joey, me boy; but what’s a tobogan ride, annyway?

      Listen to that, Pierre. I’ll be eternally shivered if he knows what a tobogan ride is!

      Hot shivers it’ll be for you, Joey, me boy, and no quinine over the bar aither, said Shon.

      Tell him what a tobogan ride is, Pierre.

      And Pretty Pierre said: Eh, well, I will tell you. It is like-no, you have the word precise, Joseph. Eh? What?

      Pierre then added something in French. Shon did not understand it, but he saw The Honourable smile, so with a gentle kind of contempt he went on singing:

      The Honourable then said, What is that all about, Shon? I never heard the song before.

      No more you did. And I wish I could see the lad that wrote that song, livin’ or dead. If one of ye’s will tell me about your tobogan rides, I’ll unfold about Farcalladen Rise.

      Prince Levis passed the liquor. Pretty Pierre, seated on a candle-box, with a glass in his delicate fingers, said: Eh, well, the Honourable has much language. He can speak, precise—this would be better with a little lemon, just a little,—the Honourable, he, perhaps, will tell. Eh?

      Pretty Pierre was showing his white teeth. At this stage in his career, he did not love the Honourable. The Honourable understood that, but he made clear to Shon’s mind what toboganing is.

      And Shon, on his part, with fresh and hearty voice, touched here and there by

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