Theodore Goodridge Roberts

Name: The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3
Author: Theodore Goodridge Roberts

The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3 (1922)

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“The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3”, published in 1922, is a work by Theodore Goodridge Roberts. It explores elements such as O'Dell, Richard Sherwood and Ben.

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3 (1922)

“ So if you attempt to question that—that little girl—my mother's guest—about her father—whom you're hunting for a murderer—I'll consider it my—unpleasant duty to knock the stuffing out of you!”
The deputy sheriff stared in amazement.
“Say, that would take some knocking!” he retorted. “How old are you, young feller?”
“I'm going on eighteen,” replied Ben quietly.
“And you think you can best me in a fight?”
“Yes, I think I can. I'm bigger than you and longer in the reach—and I'm pretty good.”
“But yer sappy. And yer all joints. I'm no giant but I'm weathered. The milk's out of my bones.” ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3 (1922)

“ Jim McAllister stepped into the stable at that moment.
“Sure he's trying to hide something, Dave Brown,” said McAllister. “He's trying to hide what he thinks of you for a deputy sheriff—that you're as ignorant as you are fresh. He's remembering his manners and trying to hide your want of them. He's half O'Dell an' half McAllister; so if you two want to talk in this stable about Richard Sherwood or anything else, I guess you'd better go out first and douse those cigars in a puddle or something.” ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3 (1922)

“ The round trip was an all day job. Ben O'Dell shouldered an ax after dinner and, accompanied by the youngest of the three O'Dell dogs, went back to mend a brush fence and see if the highest hay field was ripe for the scythe. Mrs. O'Dell and little Marion Sherwood washed and dried the dinner dishes and Mrs. O'Dell took a great ham from the oven and set it to cool in the pantry. At three o'clock she and the little girl took an armful of books to the old orchard between the house and the river. Red Lily went with them; Red Chief, the oldest of the O'Dell setters, remained asleep in the kitchen. ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3 (1922)

“ You won't find anything wrong with them if you start in questioning that little Sherwood girl about her father.”
“I wasn't born on this river,” said the deputy sheriff, “and I'm a peaceful citizen with a wife an' children in Woodstock, but I consider myself as good a sportsman as any O'Dell who ever waved a sword or a pitchfork. There's more man in me than deputy sheriff. I'll fight you, Ben, for I like yer crazy ideas ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3 (1922)

“ The deputy sheriff turned to Mel Lunt.
“How does it strike you, Mel?” he asked.
“It's a highfalutin' notion, all right for O'Dells an' sich, but no good for ordinary folks like us,” replied the constable.
“Is that so!” exclaimed Mr. Brown. “You guess again, blast yer cheek! If you can't see why a little girl hadn't ought to be set to catch her own father an' maybe send him to jail or worse, I can. Yes, I can see it, by thunder! Any gentleman could, once it was explained to him. So you don't have to worry about that, Ben.” ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3 (1922)

“ The officials left the stable, ground their cigars to extinction with the heels of their boots and came back.
“Yer darned particular,” remarked the deputy sheriff.
“Nothing out of the way,” returned McAllister.
“Well, we're looking for Richard Sherwood from French River,” said the other. “He cleared out a couple of weeks ago an' took his little girl with him. She's gone too, anyhow. I heard he used to be a friend of the folks living here, so I come to ask if you'd seen him in the last two weeks. I didn't come to set yer darned stable afire.” ”

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Theodore Goodridge Roberts, The Red Pirogue — Chapter 3 (1922)

“ It's worse than poaching, this time. I was up on French River ten days ago, taking a look over the salmon pools and one thing an' another, to see if the game wardens were onto their job, an' darn it all if I didn't trip over a bran'-new grave in a little clearing. ”

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