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He had half a mind to pursue the band and surrender himself, when, remembering the powahing, as he called it, of Arundel, he determined to try it himself. Imitating, therefore, to the best of his ability, the sounds made by the young man, he sat down and waited for the effect. Presently the figure of Towanquattick, followed by that of the Knight, stole out of a thicket and stood before him.
"Close up around the prisoners. Who dared make those sounds?" No answer was returned; and, after a vain attempt to discover their author, the party resumed its march. "If your powahing has done no other good, Master Arundel," said Philip, "it at least frightened the General." "I am a beginner," answered the young man, jestingly, "and it would not be surprising should I fail at first.
"I would think thee more cunning than any powah of them all, and, moreover, advise thee to keep out of the way of the elders and magistrates." "Keep quiet a moment, and I will try my powahing." So saying, the young man whistled the peculiar notes of the bird, which, in the dewy silence of night, rung wide through the Woods. "Halt!" cried Spikeman, who instantly suspected some treachery.
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