chechako

The Indian regarded the sack of flour: "You chechako," he announced.

"You damn chechako," was what he said, but in the saying of it was admiration.

Without doubt he was, in the old phrasing of the North, a chechako.

"Chechako," muttered the Indian, and passed around to the door.

It is not the face of Moncrossen, but of the great chechako of whom Jacques told us.