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She arose, stepping cautiously and carefully, and when she found herself in the open air once more, with the cool night-wind blowing upon her fevered cheek, she almost fainted from excessive emotion. "Come, now, walks right behind me, and if you sees dunder and blixen! dere comes an Injin!"
I shall depend chiefly on the baggonet, which is the best tool to put an Injin up with; and as he falls back, before my charge, we must keep him under as warm a fire as possible. Having no cavalry, the dog might be made useful in movements to the front and on our flanks."
I hope you think I shall have a good husband, Peter." "Hope so, too nebber know till time come. All good for little while Injin good, squaw good. Juss like weadder. Sometime rain sometime storm sometime sunshine. Juss so wid Injin, juss so wid pale-face. No difference. All same. You see dat cloud? he little now; but let wind blow, he grow big, and you see nuttin' but cloud.
"He be d d," muttered the plain-speaking Injin, as long as I could hear him. As soon as released from his presence, Streak of Lightning continued his examination, though a little vexed at the undramatical character of the interruption. "Sartain no spy, eh? sartain gubbernor no send him, eh? sartain come to sell watch, eh?"
This was too much for the bucks, so three of them dropped out, and left an old chief and myself single-handed. As I was over $150 ahead of the game, I played liberally, to draw the old chieftain on; and as he had one of his bucks walking around behind, and talking "big injin" all the time, he was getting the best of me.
Why, I could tell you somethin' about a woman that was after me some years back, a widder down below Vincennes, her husband used to run a flatboat, an', by cracky, Mr. Gwynne, you wouldn't believe the things she done. Chased me clean down to Saint Louis an' back ag'in, an' then trailed me nearly fifty miles through the woods to an Injin village on the White River.
It's L'Eau Dormante, Sleeping Water, an Injin name." "And what does that prove?" returned Teresa. "Only that Indians clap a nickname on any stranger, white or red, who may camp with them. Why, even his own father, a white man, the wretch who begot him and abandoned him, he had an Indian name Loup Noir." "What name did you say?" "Le Loup Noir, the Black Wolf.
Sound like song of wren in my ear sweeter dan mocking-bird when he do his bess. Yes, dat won'erful. He true, too; for medicine-priest ask his Manitou to bless Injin, juss as Injins lift tomahawk to take his life. I see'd and heard dat, myself. All, won'erful, won'erful!"
So still, can see silence!" "That's downright Injin as if any thing could make less noise than nothing! If you've no better reason than this to give, old Tom had better hoist his sail, and go and get his breakfast under his own roof. What has become of the moccasin?" "Here," returned Chingachgook, holding up his prize for the general inspection.
"So bess so bess. Great curse for Injin. Plenty honey, no fire-water. All dat good. And I come, if " Here Peter stopped, nor could all Margery's questions induce him to complete the sentence. His gaze at the earnest countenance of the bride was such as to give her an indefinite sort of uneasiness, not to say a feeling of alarm. Still no explanation passed between them.
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