dark-skin'd

Updated: June 19, 2025

But it would be quite as seemly, in one like you, to follow a pursuit better becoming your years and courage." "I! I never took even a slinking mink or a paddling musk-rat in a cage; though I admit having peppered a few of the dark-skin'd devils, when I had much better have kept my powder in the horn and the lead in its pouch. Not I, old man; nothing that crawls the earth is for my sport."

James Fenimore Cooper - The Prairie