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On river drives, he'd be right out there with a pickaroon, keeping the logs moving.

He had long been a hardy adventurer, a kind of equivocal borderer, half trader, half smuggler, with a tolerable dash of the pickaroon.

"I have sent for you, sir—" "Pickaroon!" "—sir," continued Mr. Fogg, "to ask you to sell me your vessel."

Men curved their palms at their ears, wondering what old Pickaroon could have to say in City Hall.

"Hy, yi, old Pickaroon!" came a child's shrill voice from a mill window.