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Meanwhile Lightheart, easily understanding her friend's motives, crept in a serpentine fashion to the hillock, where she soon found Whitewing to the intense but unexpressed joy of that valiant red man. "Will Leetil Tim go back with Lightheart to the horses and wait, while his brother remains here?" said the young chief.
They were very kind to me. This is one of them." The flashing eyes of the entire party were turned upon Peter Davidson, who, however, had presence of mind enough to gaze at the cloudless heavens with immovable solemnity and abstraction. "There are two others, whom I look upon as sons. One is named Arch-ee; the other Leetil Beel.
Besides, I have come to know that the pale-face who was shot by one of our braves is the preacher whose words went to my heart when I was a boy. I must see him." "But Bounding Bull and Leetil Tim will certainly kill you." "Leetil Tim is not like the red men," returned the chief; "he does not love revenge. My enemy Bounding Bull hunts with him much, and has taken some of his spirit. I am a red man.
"Am I much damaged?" inquired Ian, interrupting, for he felt weak. "Oh! no noting whatsocomever. Only few leetil holes in you's legs. Be bedder in a veek." "Look here," said Victor, kneeling beside the wounded man and presenting to him a piece of wood on which were neatly arranged a row of formidable claws. "I knew you would like to see them." "How good of you, Vic!
He was by nature a cook, but church-building occupied his leisure moments, and he prided himself upon being not only cleverer, but considerably blacker, than the islanders. "Now you keep out ob de road, leetil Za." This was addressed to Zariffa, who, by that time, could not only toddle but trowel, besides being able to swim like a duck.
I felt that it would be useless to press my correction, and therefore changed the subject by asking if her father had never tried to teach her English. Immediately she answered, with a somewhat bashful air "Yes, a leetil." "Why, you can speak English, Waboose," I exclaimed, stopping and looking down at her with increasing interest.
"Me tink so!" replied Meerta, with an intelligent nod. "On'y us t'ree here. All de pyrits gone away. Dem sinners on'y come here for a feed p'r'aps for leetil poodre. Soon go away."
"Ho! you should hab see poor massa's face how it grow long, I most t'ink it also grow a leetil pale, an' missis she give a squeak what she couldn't help, an' Betsy she giv' a groan an' jump up, slap on hers bonnit, back to de front, an' begin to clar out, but de cappin jump up an' stop her. `Many apologies, ses de hipperkrit `for stoppin' a lady, but I don't want any alarm given.
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