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To him Val said: "Why, dad, what's the matter? Your hand is shaky. Don't you get this thing eatin' at your heart. "It isn't worth it. That Injin would have died if you'd been in my place, I guess. Between you and me, I expect to give Jules the slip before we get there."
"She looks like an Injin," added the soldier, scowling threateningly at her; "if she is, I want her." "I told you she is a friend of ours get out of my way!" The soldier's condition enabled Ben to tumble him over on his back by means of a vigorous shove. Before he could steady himself and get upon his feet again, the others were beyond reach.
"White squaw good to Injin. Sojer say Injin lie; sojer call Long Hair dog; tell him go way." "Some of your men have ill-treated Long Hair, I'm afraid," said Mrs. Jones to the general. "Well," said the general, "I'll see that they don't do it any more;" and, wishing to propitiate the tawny brave, he added, "perhaps Long Hair would take some dinner with us."
"Well," said Nott, cautiously, "ez I reckon the hide of a dead Chinee nigger ain't any more vallyble than that of a dead Injin, I don't care ef I let up on yer seein' the cussedness ain't yours. But ef I let yer off this once, you must take a message to Ferrers from me." "Let me off this time, boss, and I swear to God I will," said the Lascar eagerly.
What good it do a nigger to captivate an Injin, if he let him go ag'in, and don't lick him little? Only little, Masser Corny. Ebbery t'ing so handy too, sah rope all ready, back bare, and feelin' up, like, after such a time in takin' 'e varmint, sah!" "Well, Jaap, what is done, is done, and there is no use in regretting it, in words.
"Just dat now, I get him ask missionary, one day, where all Christian go to, so dat Injin can't find him none in woods none on prairie none in garrison none in Mack'naw none at Detroit where all go to, den, so Injin can't find him, on'y in missionary talk?" "I am curious to know what answer your missionary made to that question."
There wasn't one of us rough nuts but respected her. She was one of the few beautiful Injin women I've seen. Well, it come out that Piccadilly had ruined her, and one morning she was found dead. It drove my pal well-nigh crazy. Not that she was anything partik'ler to him; but the thing took hold of him unusual."
"I tell you one t'ing, Bourdon dat Bough of Oak very foolish Injin if he put foot on my path." "This is plain enough, Peter," rejoined le Bourdon, who was unconcernedly repairing some of the tools of his ordinary craft. "By the way, I am greatly in your debt, I learn, for one thing. They tell me I've got my squaw in my wigwam a good deal sooner, by your advice, than I might have otherwise done.
She refused to associate with either negroes or Indians, considering herself as belonging to neither, and indulging a sovereign contempt for both. Her favorite term of reproach was 'Injin' and 'nigger, and when they failed separately to express her feelings, she put the two together, a compliment always paid the Hessians, when she had occasion to mention them.
"How came the Injin to knock the muskets overboard, Corporal?" inquired one of the party who had not yet spoken a fat, portly man, with a long hooked nose, and a peaked chin. "I'm dashed," replied Nixon, "if I can tell myself, though I was looking at him as he jumped from one end of the boat to the other.
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