The Loons
Margarel
Laurence
1、Just below
Manawaka
, where the
Wachakwa
River ran brown and noisy over the pebbles , the scrub oak and grey-green willow and chokecherry bushes grew in a dense thicket .
In a clearing at the
centre
of the thicket stood the
Tonnerre
family's shack.
The basis at this dwelling was a small square cabin made of poplar poles and chinked with mud, which had been built by Jules
Tonnerre
some fifty years before, when he came back from
Batoche
with a bullet in his thigh ...