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It's a little gal as uster hunger and thirst ez quiet and mannerly ez she now eats and drinks in plenty; whose voice was ez steady with Injins yellin' round yer nest in the leaves on Sweetwater ez in her purty cabin up yonder. That's the gal ez I knows!
"It's all very well for you to talk sentiment about niggers, Chinamen, and Injins, and you fellers can laugh about the Deacon being snatched up to heaven like Elijah in that blamed Chinese chariot of a kite but I kin tell you, gentlemen, that this is a white man's country! Yes, sir, you can't get over it!
"But we must study safety, my man," said my father. "Of course we must, sir, so what's the good of being scared about some Injins, who may never come again, and running right into where there's likely to be fevers and if some day there don't come a big flood and half drown 'em all, I'm a Dutchman, and wasn't born in Carnarvon after all."
"Why, what's the matter, Kent?" "Oh, nothin'; only there's a few Injins squatted over on t'other shore." "Ah! well, they can't see us, at any rate, for a thick fog has gathered during the night and is resting upon the river." "Wal, they can hear you easy 'nough, 'specially if you go on that way." "Come, come, Kent, don't be cross.
Such a movement on the part of the State, well and energetically managed, would have drawn half the 'Injins' at once from the ranks of disaffection to those of authority; for all that most of these men want is to live easy, and to have a parade of military movements.
"Well, then, this mornin' I was cuttin' down as big an oak as ever grew in Michigan, when, as it went thunderin' through the branches, with noise enough to scare every buffalo within a day's hunt, up started, not twenty yards from it's tip, ten or a dozen or so of Injins, all gruntin' like pigs, and looking as fierce as so many red devils. They didn't look quite pleasant, I calcilate."
He fought with our folks ag'in the French Injins." "But who could the man have been?" asked the widow, gravely. "The children saw a man lurking about the corn-field at the lower end to-day. And when I was milking, Mary came and told me that he was then across the river at the ox-bow, looking over at the house. If it should be Simon Halpen!
"That's so," Dick said, "but just at present it air a question of something more serious than bufflars, it air a question of Injins." "Indians!" Frank exclaimed, gazing round in every direction. "Where, Dick? I see no signs of them." "No, and if you were to look round all day you wouldn't see 'em; they are at your feet." Frank looked down in surprise.
These Injins are betwixt us and that ar train, or following it." Peyton made a hurried gesture of warning, as if reminding the speaker of Clarence's presence a gesture which the boy noticed and wondered at. Then the conversation of the three men took a lower tone, although Clarence distinctly heard the concluding opinion of the expert. "It ain't no good now, Mr.
"Maybe he has been stoled by Injins," exclaimed Rhoda, with great fervor; "thar was a Injin captive in a shew at Nu-ark, that had been kept nineteen years. He forgot his language, and whooped dreffle. Misc Somers say he was an imploster, an' worked on the Brekwater up to Lewistown. "Do get that girl a pocket-handkerchief, and show her how to use it," exclaimed Mrs. Tilghman, breaking out.
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