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She has frightful dreams of your being captured by Indians." He laughed at that. "Are the Indians very fierce here?" she asked timidly. "Some tribes are, the Hurons. And others are very easily managed if you can keep fire-water away from them." "Fire" wonderingly. "Rum or brandy. You will see strange sights. But you must not get frightened. Now tell me about our parents."
He then handed it to his next of kin, and so the bottle passed through the whole company. It is to be supposed that the young women did not burn their throats with very copious drafts of the poisonous fire-water. When they arrived at the house, the brief ceremony of marriage immediately took place, and then came the marriage feast.
I used to go up sometimes with traders, but I never liked the job: first, I didn't like selling 'fire-water, as they called it, to the Indians, for it made them mad, and brought on quarrels and wars; in the next place, it was a dangerous business.
He was Heigon's enemy, but he lifted him to his feet and brushed the snow from his face and limbs and poured his fire-water down his throat. He dug the snow away until he came to the dry leaves, and then he kindled a fire to warm Heigon by. He stayed by him all night, and in the morning Heigon was strong and a man again. When he went away, he asked the Indian his name. It was Oonomoo, the Huron.
She at once offered him all the beaver-skins and a large quantity of buffalo-robes. "Still he was not content, and insisted on having me and several other articles. She cried with vexation, but at last, finding she could not obtain the fire-water, she exclaimed, `Take them all, but only bring me the rum. "Peshauba got up and, without saying a word, returned to his own camp.
"I don't know about that," said Jim, with a shake of his head. "This playing with fire by a man who can't keep away from fire-water, is risky." "Well, I'll take the chance," said Joe. And that was characteristic of him taking chances. Ham Logan was deeply grateful to Joe for what the young performer did.
Now and then a brave, with an amount of self-abnegation worthy of a better cause, would issue from the tent with his cheeks distended and his mouth full of the fire-water, and going along the ranks of his friends he would squirt a little of the liquor into the open mouths of his less fortunate brethren. But things did not always go so smoothly.
Brought year by year more and more into contact with the white man, and year by year more debased by an insatiable thirst for the deadly fire-water, the American Indian had indeed gradually become less and less formidable to his foes; he was, however, by no means an enemy to be despised.
In this very case its power was, exhibited in his successfully interposing to allay the exasperation of his people, and to prevent a war of extermination. Even the white traders in fire-water themselves were sometimes touched. The captain of one smuggling vessel, who was fined four hundred dollars by Mr.
Then the cached fire-water would be diminished by a keg or two. It was a lazy, sleepy life. There was no need for a close guard. Nobody knew where the whiskey was except themselves and a few tight-mouthed traders. Morse discovered in himself an inordinate capacity for sleep. He would throw himself down on the warm, sundried grass and fall into a doze almost instantly.
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