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The Indian nodded approvingly. This accorded, as far as it went, with what he had learned from the missionaries of Red River, but his mind was evidently perplexed. He smoked, meditated a considerable time, and glared at Tony in silence; then said suddenly "Tonyquat, your father is not a Christian." "My fadder would knock zoo down if zoo say dat to hims face," replied the child confidently.
Ah! ho! how my heart him jump ven he speak my name! But de Injuns tink hims yell out to some von cross de river, for him looks dat vay. Vell, off dey go, and I begin to breathe more easy; but ven dey git far-off, I hear the voice of Big Valler come back like far-avay tondre, cryin', `Dey're goin' to roast us alive to-morrow; look sharp! Dat vas de last I hear.
A little girl, such a pretty little dear, all eyes, and fat cheeks, that sort of tell you life's the bulliest thing ever. Well, he took him to his home, such a long, long way, over snow, and over rivers and lakes, where there's fishes, and through forests where there's wolves, an' bears " "Does hims see any debble-mens?" "No. Because Uncle Steve says there just aren't any."
"Ha!" said the man, with a broad grin, "me keep eyes in head me doos not in pocket. Ho! ho! Yis, me see an' hear berry well Muggins go too if hims can and Larry O'Hale, ho yis. Now, me go too!" "You too?" "Yis. You save me life; me know dis here part ob the univarse, bin bornded an' riz here. Not far off from de land to-day. You let me go too, an' me show you how you kin do "
He stood erect for some time, with a broad grin on his swarthy face, and a twinkle in his eye, as he gazed after the young hopeful, muttering to himself, "Ho! yes bery wicked boy dat, bery; but hims capital chap for all dat."
Me speaks English, for my husban' likes it." "Your husband what is his name!" "Big Tim." "What!" exclaimed the wounded man with sudden energy, as a flush overspread his pale face; "is he the son of Little Tim, the brother-in-law of Whitewing the prairie chief?" "He is the son of Leetil Tim, an' this be hims house."
"Ha! then, I tink perhaps hims could if he wos try," said Henri, plunging on to his horse with a laugh, and arranging the carcass of the antelope across the pommel of his saddle. Thus they hunted and galloped, and trotted and ambled on through wood and plain all day, until the sun began to descend below the tree-tops of the bluffs on the west.
I bet hims daddy Bud will be glad Now you sit right still, and Marie will get him a cracker, an' then he can watch Marie pack him little shirt, and hims little bunny suit, and hims wooh-wooh, and hims 'tockins "
This grieved, him deeply, because every preparation had been made by his companions for starting on their homeward journey that evening, so that he had no time to spare. Mary, was at home, however, so March felt a little consoled, and, seating himself in his wonted place beside the fire, he said "When will Dick be home, Mary?" "Me no can know 'xactly. To-morray hims say, perhaps."
He gesticulated continuously, sawing the air with his hands. "Ye-s Joe Ratowsky, he run and tell ze ze. He ees one fool. He ze monkee on ze stick. Mees-ter Ho-bart, he meek hims jump." The suggestion was enough. Joe was the tool of someone, and that someone was Superintendent Hobart; such was the idea the Italian meant to convey.
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