Vulgar words in Snow Shoes and Canoes - The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory (Page 1)
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You will be getting the racquettes, and may knock up before you reach the fort."
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Our spunk wood got wetted by the water, and when we at last reached the shore we were unable to light a fire.
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I therefore kept moving about as well as I was able, and at length reaching the forest, found some rotten wood which I used as a substitute for spunk, and was able, greatly to my satisfaction, to raise a fire.
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"But our horses are knocked up, and we can go no distance to-night," I said.
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The next instant, her bow striking a rock, she was whirled round, when her stern came in contact with a snag also fixed in the crevices of another rock.
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Alick, though he had held out so well when leading our small party, had knocked up altogether when his responsibilities were over, and was unfit to exert himself in any way; all he could do, indeed, was to step into his cariole and be dragged along over the snow.