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The foot of stranger hath not often trod these rocks, and no man before thee hath ever descended the precipice." "A moccason is sure," returned the other with Indian brevity. "My father hath a good eye. He can see very far from the door of his lodge." "Thou knowest that the men of my color speak often to their Good Spirit, and they do not love to ask his favor in the highways.
And placing a few billets in the cylinder, La Salle rolled himself up in his heavy coat, drew off his long moccason boots, and placing his stockinged feet where the heat of the fire would dry the insensible perspiration they had gathered during the day, he prepared for a short nap.
The limbs, seen below the folds of a short kirtle of bright scarlet cloth, were just and tapering, even to the nicest proportions of classic beauty; and never did foot of higher instep, and softer roundness, grace a feathered moccason.
"His eye is not as quick as when he took the scalp of the Great Chief, or he would know the print of a moccason see," making his companion observe the mark of a human foot that was barely discernible by the manner in which the dead leaves had been displaced; "his rock is worn, but it is harder than the ground. He cannot tell by its signs who passed, or when."
Let him dig the prints of his moccason from the earth, with his nails, like a burrowing fox: for there'll be one on his trail, before he can hide his head. Nipset will be a warrior the next snow!" "There speaks my witless brother!" exclaimed Faith, rushing ahead she recoiled, covered her face with her hands, and sunk upon the ground, under the violence of the surprise that followed.
Saul stayed the impatient horse at the point where we then were, and, indicating a height above and a depth below, told me the legend of the naming of his village. It was given thus: "A long time ago, when the soundless tread of the moccason walked fearlessly over the bed of echoes in this valley, two warriors, Wabausee and Waubeeneemah, came one day upon the river, at its opposite sides.
In the sedges and the mud the alligator stretched his brutish length; turtles with outstretched necks basked on half-sunken logs; the rattlesnake sunned himself on the sandy bank, and the yet more dangerous moccason lurked under the water-lilies in inlets and sheltered coves. The air and the water were populous as the earth.
He knows that the moccason, and the wampum, and the robe of fur are liars; he sees the color of the skin beneath." "Conanchet, no;" returned the female hurriedly, and with a decision her timidity did not give reason to expect. "He seeth farther than the skin, and knoweth the color of the mind. He hath forgotten that one of his girls is missing." "It is not so.
It was a huge serpent a snake of the most venomous kind the dreaded `moccason. It was one of the largest of its species; and its great flat head, protruding sockets, and sparkling eyes, added to the hideousness of its appearance. Every now and then, as it advanced, it threw out its forked tongue, which, moist with poisonous saliva, flashed under the sunbeam like jets of fire.
"Now a party of the enemy for I saw a moccason track just now, and none on our side would be in such company as that means a party of 'em have gone on before us; and my notion is, that we strike off through this bushy pasture to the left." "Let us do so, then, if such is our situation, and that without a moment's delay," cried Sabrey, in alarm at the unexpected disclosure.
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