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He bought a fisherman's outfit at Gorleston, travelled up to London, got a passage the next morning on a Billingsgate fish-carrier, and that night went throbbing down the great water street of the Swim, past the green globes of the Mouse.
It was then that I first saw them. I stood on the shore with a very sickness from laughter in all my bones." Here he ceased talking, for Fish-Carrier and Wampum had broken into such bursts of merriment that Fire-Flower was compelled to join them. "Oh, that I could have seen them, that I could have seen it all!" moaned Fish-Carrier between gasps.
"We'll hear what you have to tell," answered Fish-Carrier, with great condescension. Young Wampum sat erect then. He knew the tale was going to be a good one. Teasingly, old Fire-Flower took an unnecessarily long time to "light up," but his two auditors were Indians, like himself, and had patience with his whims.
He will at once catch at it each side with his claws, and he will pull, pull his own head under water. The more he struggles the deeper he sinks." "Yes, that is the Indian fashion of killing a bear in midstream," echoed Fish-Carrier, "and it is a great thing for a hunter to know." "Thank you for telling me," said the boy, rising to take his leave.
I am to drive the missionary to-day. He goes to the Delaware line once more." "Ha! The Delawares!" sneered old Fire-Flower. "I like not those Delawares. They worship idols. It is not good to dance around idols." "Not good," again echoed Fish-Carrier. "Still the Delawares are not really bad people," said Wampum.
She might have been an overgrown tug or a superannuated fish-carrier. Cartoner landed at the Cherry Orchard Pier, and soon found a boatman to take him to the Minnie. "Just took the skipper on board a few minutes ago, sir," he said. "He must have come down by the boat before yours."
"Fish-Carrier," the other hunter, nodded his head understandingly, refilled his stone pipe, and said tauntingly, "I know some Indians that don't know as much as a bear." Fire-Flower chuckled, passing the insinuation with a knowing smile. "No bear knows more than this Indian," he boasted. "At least no bear I ever came across could outwit me."
"I don't like their hideous idol, and some day I hope to see it cut down," he added earnestly. "Then it will be a brave man who will do it," asserted Fire-Flower. "The Delawares are a fierce tribe. Their eyes are too black. They cannot be trusted. We Mohawks are brave, but I know of none who would dare cut down that idol." "I hope the Black Coat* won't try it himself," said Fish-Carrier.
They had worshipped a living God, not a wooden one, and the boy turned in sadness, and some horror, from the spectacle of these idolatrous Delawares. Then his eyes lighted with pleasure, for there, near the door, stood Fire-Flower and Fish-Carrier.
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