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moosehides?" Yes. "Ah-h-h-" Long pause. My grandfather began to suspect something. Again she said "Hardy, you sure you got dem moosehides. Best may you see." Then she went away. My grandfather looked and found the hides gone. He went up to the camp demanded them of Lola who though he stoutly denied it, at last produced them -

Where the Indians used to live down by Henry K. Robinson's, the agent built a house there which Old Molly preempted and held. Near the house ran Henry K. Robinson's fence and not far off stood Brown's house. An Irishman who disliked Brown fired Wiswell's house, expecting to burn Brown out. Failing in this, he set fire to Brown's house and that communicated the fire to Molly's house, Robinson's fence and many Indian camps. Soon after Robinson met Molly in the town and hailed her roughly.