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    The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
    The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
    The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899
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    The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899

    By Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 - Mary Hartwell Catherwood

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      Title: The Cursed Patois

             From Mackinac And Lake Stories, 1899

      Author: Mary Hartwell Catherwood

      Release Date: October 30, 2007 [EBook #23247]

      Last Updated: December 17, 2012

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CURSED PATOIS ***

      Produced by David Widger

      THE CURSED PATOIS

      From Mackinac And Lake Stories, 1899

      By Mary Hartwell Catherwood

      As his boat shot to the camp dock of beach stones, the camper thought he heard a child's voice behind the screen of brush. He leaped out and drew the boat to its landing upon a cross-piece held by two uprights in the water, and ascended the steep path worn in leaf mould.

      There was not only a child, there was a woman also in the camp. And Frank Puttany, his German feet planted outward in a line, his smiling dark face unctuous with hospitality towards creatures whom he had evidently introduced, in foolish helplessness gave his partner the usual greeting:

      Veil, Prowny.

      Hello, Puttany. Visitors?

      Brown pulled off his cap to the woman. She was pretty, with eyes like a deer's, with white teeth showing between her parted scarlet lips, and much curling hair pinned up and blowing over her ears. She had the rich tint of a quarter-breed, lightened in her case by a constant suffusion which gave her steady color. She was dressed in a mixture of patches, but all were fitted to her perfect shape with a Parisian elegance sensed even by-backwoodsmen. Pressed against her knee stood the dirtiest and chubbiest four-year-old child on the borders of Brevoort Lake—perhaps the dirtiest on the north shore of Michigan. The Indian mixed with his French had been improved on by the sun until he was of a brick redness and hardness of flesh; a rosy-raeated thing, like a good muskalonge. Brown suddenly remembered the pair. They were Joe La France's wife and child. Joe La France was dead. Puttany had recently told him that Joe La France left a widow and a baby

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