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Slaughtered, every one of them; and so it will be again to-morrow eh, A'tim? It's the big Herd down in the good feeding they're after, I suppose." "Yes," answered A'tim; "to-morrow the whole Blood tribe, and Camous the Paleface, who is but a squaw man, living in their lodges, will make the Run."
E-u-h-h, e-u-h-h! but my mouth watered with the thought of their sweet meat as I lay as one dead. Now, they hadn't the knowledge to work up wind to me, but came straight for the thing they saw that moved. Would you believe it, just as I was measuring from the corner of my eye the time for a strong rush, who should creep over a hill but Camous!
In fright I sprang to my feet, and away went the Goat-faced small-prongs. Then the deviltry of the many-breathed Fire-stick this Camous carries came down upon me as I ran faster than I'd ever gone before. 'Click, snap! click, snap! the quick-breathing Fire-stick coughed; and though I rocked, and jumped sideways and twisted, before I could get away I had one of the breath-stings in my shoulder.
Ha, ha! A'tim to fear a Buffalo! Good-evening, Brother," he exclaimed; "you quite frightened me I thought it was that debased Long Knife, Camous." "Thought me Camous!" bellowed the Bull, snorting indignantly; "he's but a slayer and a thief. All the Paleface Long Knives are that; killing, killing stealing, stealing.
Why, even among his own kind he is called 'Camous'; and you, who were bred in the Man camps, know what that means." "Of course, of course ha! most surely it means 'a stealer of things. But I meant not to liken you to him, Brother Shag it was only my fright; for even in my dreams I am always seeing the terrible Camous. I have cause to remember him, Shag it was this way. Did I ever tell you?"
"He is chasing the reed-legged Antelope now; or, perhaps, even in his sleep, Camous pursues him with the many-breathed Fire-stick. Well, well, by my hump, but we all have our troubles; even this Dog-Wolf, who is not half my age, has lived into the hard winter of life."
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