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His finger was thrust through a hole in the skin, and then, while he resumed his former position, he observed drily "A bullet hath hit the head. The arrow of Mohtucket doth little harm!" "Metacom hath never looked on his young man like a friend, since the brother of Mohtucket was killed."
"There was no scalp at his belt, and Mohtucket was ashamed to be seen among the young men with an empty hand." "He remembered that he had too often come back without striking a dead enemy," returned Metacom, about whose firm mouth lurked an expression of ill-concealed contempt. "Has he now touched a warrior?"
As usual there was no greeting between the Indians for some moments, the three appearing to regard the arrival as a mere thing of course. But the uneasiness of Metacom prompted a communication sooner than common. "Mohtucket," he said, in the language of their tribe, "hath lost the trail of his friends. We thought the crows of the pale-men were picking his bones!"
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