"Vraiment! she's one good gon," he commented, passing it back. "W'ere you get 'um?"
"Vraiment! she's one good gon," he commented.... "W'ere you get 'um?"
Prime did not answer the question. He thought it was high time to ask a few of his own.
"What river is this?" he wanted to know.
"You make canoe on him and you not know dat? She is Mishamen; comes bimeby to Rivière du Lièvres."
"How far?"
"One, two, t'ree day; mebbe more."
"You mean that we will reach a town in two or three days?"
"Mebbe so, if you don' get los'."