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Show 52 Chapter 5: Over Chilkoot.Pass I should have known she was a girl-with a name like Tip. "That's all?" I asked. "Tip?" " I t ' s short for Tzipporah. The whole thing i s Tzipporah Timothy Trattner." "Is i t a flower?" "Of course it isn't a flower." She looked at me as if I had the peculiar name, "Why do you think it's a flower?" "Well, Daisy and Petunia-" "Oh." She laughed. "Those are not their real names? those are their stage names. They are actresses, you know." Tip had not told me when we formed our partnership on the trail that she was dressed as a boy. Her mother had felt it was safer, at least until they reached Dawson City. That explained |
