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Then he and Eaglenose examined it and the knife carefully, after which they turned to the track through the bushes. But here caution became necessary. There might be an ambuscade. With tomahawk in one hand, and scalping-knife in the other, the chief advanced slowly, step by step, gazing with quick intensity right and left as he went.
He stooped, took the little face between his hands, and kissed it on both cheeks. "Don't don't leave me," said the child, beginning to whimper. "The chief commands, and Eaglenose must obey," said the youth. He gently unclasped the little hands, and silently glided into the forest.
He had been trained, however, in a school where contempt of pain and suffering was inculcated more sternly even than among the Spartans of old. "Skipping one," he said, in a low, stern voice, "Eaglenose must leave you, for his chief commands, but he will laugh and sing no more." Even through her tears the skipping one could scarce forbear smiling at the tone in which this was uttered.
"The mother of Eaglenose is not such a fool as the rest of them," said Umqua, in a slightly softer tone; "but why does my son talk foolishness about going to the tents of his enemy, and giving up a girl who it is easy to see is good and wise and true, and a hard worker, and not a fool?" "Listen, mother. It is because Moonlight is all that you say, and much more, that I shall send her home.
Meanwhile Eaglenose and Skipping Rabbit, being influenced by no considerations of delicacy or anything else, kept up a lively conversation in rear. For Eaglenose, like his chief, had freed himself from some of the trammels of savage etiquette. It would take up too much valuable space to record all the nonsense that these two talked to each other, but a few passages are worthy of notice.
"Does Rushing River," she asked, with earnest simplicity, "want to have his tongue slit, his eyes poked in, his liver pulled out, and his scalp cut off?" "I think not," replied Eaglenose, with equal simplicity, for although such a speech from such innocent lips may call forth surprise in a civilised reader, it referred, in those regions and times, to possibilities which were only too probable.
After the preacher's remains had been laid in the grave at the foot of a pine-tree in that far western wilderness, Little Tim, with his son and Indian friends, followed Bounding Bull to his camp, where one of the very first persons they saw was Skipping Rabbit engaged in violently agitating the limbs of her jumping-jack, to the ineffable delight of Eaglenose.
Well, the very first pupil that came to the English class was Skipping Rabbit, and, curiously enough, the very second was Eaglenose. Now it must be remembered that we have said that years had passed away. Skipping Rabbit was no longer a spoiled, little laughing child, but a tall, graceful, modest girl, just bursting into womanhood.
"Does not the skipping one know," he said earnestly, "that for many moons she has been as the sun in the sky to Eaglenose? When she was a little one, and played with the jumping-jack, her eyes seemed to Eaglenose like the stars, and her voice sounded like the rippling water after it has reached the flowering prairie.
Then came Moonlight, followed by Umqua and by Skipping Rabbit on her pony, Eaglenose bringing up the rear. On emerging, however, into the open ground, Rushing River drew rein until Moonlight came up alongside of him.
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