"Runagate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... garden and Red Jacket was to see me do it. Down at heart all Indians reckon digging a squaw's business, and neither him nor Cornplanter, when he relieved watch, was a hard task-Master. We hired a nigger-boy to do our work, and a lazy grinning runagate he was. When I found Toby didn't die the minute he reached town, why, boylike, I took him off my mind and went with my Indians again. Oh! those days up north at Canasedago, running races and gambling with the Senecas, or bee-hunting 'in the woods, or fishing in the lake.' Pharaoh sighed and looked ...
— Rewards and Fairies • Rudyard Kipling |
