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Updated: May 19, 2025
"And you will not come back to harm us?" "Neber come back stay way love white folks." "I don't believe you will ever love them, and I don't ask you to do so; but you know that my father and mother and I have always treated your people kindly, and they have no reason to hurt us." "Dat so dat so Red Feather love fader, love moder, love son, love pappoose of white folks."
"'O-ho! says John Tom, 'I see. You're the Boy Avenger. And you've sworn to rid the continent of the savage redman. Is that about the way of it, son? "The kid halfway nodded his head. And then he looked glum. 'Twas indecent to wring his secret from his bosom before a single brave had fallen before his parlor-rifle. "'Now, tell us where your wigwam is, pappoose, says John Tom 'where you live?
The Highland soldier did not know whether Attusah looked back while in flight, but his last glimpse of the Cherokee town of Citico showed the broad glare of lightning upon the groups of conical roofs in the slanting lines of rain; the woman on the high mound at the portal of the council-house, with the pappoose on her back and the gun in her hand; the sentinel once more climbing the ascent to his post.
The chief shook his head sadly. "Bad! bad! Young braves no think when kill runaway steers. Never more can happen after this. Send skins to pay when get um. Glad get meat for squaw and pappoose." That was the extent of his remarks. "I guess Injuns ain't got much of a supply of words," remarked Will aside to Bluff. "But he means all right. I like the old chap's looks.
The flat denial of his "boss" was quite without effect upon Julyman. Oolak, beside him, roused himself sufficiently to turn his head and blink enquiry at him. He was a silent creature whose admiration for those who could sustain prolonged talk was profound. "All same, boss, that so," Julyman protested without emotion. "Him same like all men. Him just man, squaw, pappoose.
The Indian was talking in a low voice, and in a deliberate fashion. "I mak him," he said, in his quaint, broken way. "Neche all out. Only squaws, an' pappoose by the camp. Old men yes. Him all by river. Much squaws by river. Charley not come by river. No good. Charley him look by camp. Him see much teepee, much shack. Oh, yes, plenty. One big plenty big shack. Squaws mak go by shack. Him store.
The girl pappoose ran about the cabin, brown and bare, but for the bead jacket Singing Stream had made for her in the pride of her maternity. Rodney called the little girl "Judith." Her Indian mother never guessed the significance of the strange name that she could not say, but made at least ten soft singing syllables of, in the Indian way.
It was so much sweeter not to have any presiding genius other than Pappoose, not that he was forgetful of Mrs. Fletcher's merits and services which were great but it was plain to see that his daughter would have been happier had no such office existed as that created for this deserving and destitute widow.
The French have nothing to do with it." "Yengeese fight Yengeese um?" "I am afraid it will so turn out. Do not the Tuscaroras sometimes dig up the hatchet against the Tuscaroras?" "Tuscarora man kill Tuscarora man good he quarrel, and kill he enemy. But Tuscarora warrior nebber take scalp of Tuscarora squaw and pappoose! What you t'ink he do dat for? Red man no hog, to eat pork."
"Where is the village of my brother?" he asked in his gentle way. The Sauk aroused himself and slowly rose to his feet. Glancing through the firelight at his questioner, he pointed to the west. "Two suns' journey away is the home of Hay-uta. There are his squaw and pappoose.
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