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Updated: June 27, 2025
"Has the skipping one," he said on one occasion, "brought with her the little man that jumps?" by which expression he referred to the jumping-jack. "Yes, he is with the pack-horses. Does Eaglenose want to play with him?"
While he and his companions were still bending cautiously forward and peering around, the hoot of an owl was heard in the air. Eaglenose looked up with inquiring gaze, but his chief's more practised ear at once understood it. He stood erect, stuck his weapons into his belt, and, with a look of great satisfaction, repeated the cry.
The skipping one, whose good humour was quite restored at the mere mention of her friend's name, said that she not only knew him, but loved him, and had been taught many things by him. "I suppose he taught you to speak and act like the pale-faced squaws?" said Eaglenose. "I suppose he did," returned the child, with a laugh, "and Moonlight helped him.
But we have already said that Eaglenose was an eccentric youth; moreover, he was a Christian, and we do not feel bound to account for the conduct or sentiments of people who act under the combined influence of Christianity and eccentricity. When Skipping Rabbit heard the above declaration, she did indeed blush a little.
She was still as fond as ever of the jumping-jack, but she slily worked its galvanic limbs for the benefit of little children, not for her own O dear no! Eaglenose had also grown during these years into a stalwart man, and his chin and lower jaws having developed considerably, his nose was relatively much reduced in appearance.
But perhaps it is also because I have white blood in me. My mother was a pale-face." "That accounts for Skipping Rabbit being so ready to laugh, and so fond of fun," said the youth. "Was the father of Eaglenose a pale-face?" asked the child. "No; why?" "Because Eaglenose is as ready to laugh and as fond of fun as Skipping Rabbit.
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