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It would be better for the Americans and the English if they, too, like the French, learned the patience of the Indians." "The birds gave us a warning that they had come. You don't think it possible, Tayoga, that they will also give the savages warning that we are here?" "No, Dagaeoga, we have been lying in the thickets so long now, and have been so quiet that the birds have grown used to us.
Thus were the qualms of young Lennox quieted and he used his bearskin cap, gloves and cloak without further scruple. The snowshoes were completed and Tayoga announced that he would start early the next morning. "I may be gone three or four days, Dagaeoga," he said, "but I will surely return. I shall avoid danger, and do you be careful also." "Don't fear for me," said Robert.
When the great mass of green enclosed them he felt a mighty surge of hope. His imaginative temperament was on fire. A chance for him would surely come. Tayoga might be hidden in the thickets. Action brought renewed courage. Langlade, who was watching him, smiled. "I read your mind, young Monsieur Lennox," he said. "Have I not told you that I, Charles Langlade, have the perceptions?
We'll meet him where we stand, and when the battle is over, whatever may be its fortunes, he'll know that he had a real fight." They walked away from the lake, and began to arrange their forces to the most advantage, but Robert and Tayoga remained on the cliff. They saw the canoe go back toward the north, melt into the horizon line, and then reappear, but with a whole brood of canoes.
They had venison and cold hominy from their knapsacks, and they ate with sharp appetites. Then Robert let his lids fall again and in a few minutes was off to slumberland. "Now you follow him, Tayoga," said Willet, "and I'll watch." "But remember to awake me for my turn," said the Onondaga. "You can rely upon me," said the hunter.
The forest could be as truly a kingdom as cities and fields, and within the limits of his horizon Tayoga, a coming chief of the clan of the Bear, of the nation Onondaga, of the League of the Hodenosaunee, was as thoroughly of royal blood as any sovereign on his throne.
"I trust they'll keep up their combination of pleasure and sustenance some time, because it's very nice to lie here, rest one's overstrained system, and feel that one is watched over by a faithful friend, one who can do your work as well as his. You're not only a faithful friend, Tayoga, you're a most useful one also." "Dagaeoga is lazy. He would not have as a friend one who is lazy like himself.
They cannot fly over the heads of Ojibway and Caughnawaga warriors, and so, if our enemies come, they, too, are likely to come our way." "Then I'll rest awhile, Tayoga, and it may be that I'll doze. If a rabbit runs in our direction wake me up." "You may pretend to sleep, Dagaeoga, but you will not. You may close your eyes, but you cannot close your ears, nor can you still your nerves.
It has come very softly and, while its eyes are larger, they are mild and have only curiosity." "A deer, I should say, Tayoga." "Yes, a deer, Lennox, a very beautiful deer. It has been drawn by the fire, and having come as near as it dares it stands there, shivering a little, but wondering and admiring." "We won't trouble it, Tayoga.
Often Robert, Willet and Tayoga went far ahead on swift foot, searching the forest for ambush, and finding none, they would come back and watch the axmen, three hundred in number, who were cutting the road for the army. They were stalwart fellows, skilled in their business, and their axes rang through the woods.
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