This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. CROSS-PURPOSES. "'1*0 take another wife has been long in your heart, my husband. Why?" Ka-kee is no little surprised at the question. He has several times in the course of their married life spoken of taking an assistant for his wife, but she met the suggestion always with indifference, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX. CROSS-PURPOSES. "'1*0 take another wife has been long in your heart, my husband. Why?" Ka-kee is no little surprised at the question. He has several times in the course of their married life spoken of taking an assistant for his wife, but she met the suggestion always with indifference, or with a touch of ridicule or anger. Circumstances have not wholly favored his scheme, and his domestic relations have been so entirely comfortable that he has hesitated about increasing his importance at the cost of peace. It is near the close of the fourth day of mourning for Chief Kood-wot that Sa-allie, after much deliberation and growing self-approval, has entered on the task of appearing to yield to her husband's ambition, and at the same time to shrewdly bring about just what she herself now most truly desires. "So much you have talked about this thing I'd like to know what you want a wife for. Is it because I don't scold enough? If that is it you will never have to ask for any more of the sweet bitterness--if you A'ill just take a Wife who will bring plenty of blankets with her. She won't let any of us forget that she brought them, and it won't be long, either, before she will think she brought us all we have. Is it a rich wife you want, Ka-kee?" "No; I can't say that I have thought so much of what she would bring me," hesitatingly answered the husband. "Is it for work ?--for gaining trade with the Stick peopie, maybe? I say, Ka-kee, her friends will give you more trouble than the trade is worth, and they will cost you more than she can ever gain for you." "I know that. I would not have a Stick woman, but a man is worth more among his own people if he has more than one wife; and if she were of the right sort, Sa-allie, she...
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Revell, NY c.1892, 5th. ed. ca.1900? small 8vo. cloth, 281pp. 4 photos of Juneau & Sitka & basket weavers. seems to have a missionary bent. Harriet Pullen's copy, Skagway, 1919-owner of Pullen's House Hotel in Skagway. speckled covers, G $
