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Updated: June 27, 2025
It will not therefore surprise the reader to be told that Eaglenose and the skipping one, being thus engaged in a common pursuit, were naturally, we may even say unavoidably, thrown a good deal together; and as their philological acquirements extended, they were wont at times to air their English on each other. The lone woods formed a convenient scene for their intercourse.
He turned at once and rejoined Eaglenose, who was standing on guard like a statue at no great distance. Moonlight went immediately and softly into the bushes, without pausing to utter a single word to her female companions, and disappeared. Thereupon the chief and his young brave lay down, and, resting there in profound silence, awaited the result with deep but unexpressed anxiety.
"Oh yes, sometimes," returned the child. "He kicked me last night because I said he was so like Eaglenose." "The little husband did well. A wooden chief so grand did not like to be compared to a poor young brave who has only begun to go on the war-path, and has taken no scalps yet." The mention of war-path and scalps had the effect of quieting the poor child's tendency to repartee.
It was probably some faint recognition of this fact that induced her to add with the intense energy of one who is resolved to walk in the path of duty "I hate all the Blackfeet!" "So do I," returned the child, and then pausing, slowly added, "except" and paused again. "Well, who does the skipping one except?" "Eaglenose," replied the skipper promptly.
Skipping Rabbit he placed in front of Eaglenose. Then, vaulting on to his own steed, he galloped away through the forest, followed closely by the whole band. Now it so happened that about the same hour another band of horsemen started from the camp of Bounding Bull.
To clear up the mystery of the sound which had thrilled on the sharp ear of Eaglenose, we will return to the Indian camp, where, after the council, a sumptuous feast of venison steaks and marrow-bones was spread in Bounding Bull's wigwam. Moonlight not being one of the party, and having already supped, said to her mother that she was going to find Skipping Rabbit and have a run with her.
"No, I will never more laugh, or pull the string of the jumping-jack; but," he added, with sudden animation, as a thought struck him, "Eaglenose will bring the jumping-jack to the camp of Bounding Bull, and put it in the hands of the skipping one, though his scalp should swing for it in the smoke of her father's wigwam."
A bear-leader, such as I had before now seen at the town-fair, had made his way to the Lodge, and the swarthy master, with his two companions, as it might be his brothers, were like all the men of their tribe. A thick growth of hair covered the mouth below an eaglenose, and on their shaggy heads they wore soft red bonnets.
She thought she had given a tremendous stab to the dignity of Eaglenose; and so she had, yet it happened that the dignity of Eaglenose escaped, because it was shielded by a buckler of fun so thick that it could not easily be pierced by shafts of ridicule.
The voice that spoke was that of the mother of Eaglenose. Rushing River listens not to squaws' tales, but he cannot stop his ears. The words floated to him with the smoke of their fire. They were, `Umqua has been very kind to me. I heard no more."
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