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The Pale-faces have more beads, and guns, and blankets, and knives, and vermilion than they require; they wish to give some of these things for the skins and furs which the Red-man does not know what to do with. The great chief of the Pale-faces has sent me to say, Why should we fight? let us smoke the pipe of peace."
"Ask him," said Lumley to Salamander, who was interpreter to the expedition, "if we are far now from the lodges of his people." "Three times," replied the red-man, pointing to the sun, "will the great light go down, and then the smoke of Big Otter's wigwam shall be seen rising above the trees."
You will remember, he has not sold Ticonderoga to the French, as the Mohawks sold Mooseridge to us; and that, you must admit, makes a great difference. A bargain is a bargain, Onondago." "Yes, bargain, bargain that good. Good for red-man, good for pale-face no difference what Mohawk sell, he no take back, but let pale-face keep but how come Mohawk and King sell, too? Bot' own land, eh?"
The boy's heart seemed to bound into his throat and his first impulse was to turn the canoe and fly, but Archie's mind was quicker even than his hand or eye. All he had ever heard or read of the cool stoicism of the Red-man seemed to flash across his memory, and, with a violent effort, he crushed back the shout that rose to his lips.
"Now, if this heroic youth had had gumption enough to come out flat-footed, an' instead of stealing rotten apples that the pigs has walked on, had told his trouble to the Great Head War Chief, that native-born noble Red-man would 'a' said: 'Sonny, quite right. When in doubt come to Grandpa. You want to get sharp on Duck. Ugh!
Placing his gun and snow-shoes in a corner, after solemnly responding "watchee, watchee," to Macnab's "what cheer," the red-man seated himself on the floor beside the stove, with silent disregard of the chair that his host politely offered.
"We have come with a message from the great chief of the Pale-faces, who lives in the village far beyond the great river where the sun rises. He says, Why should the Pale-face and the Red-man fight? They are brothers.
"Were you in this battle, Nick? How came you to learn so much about it?" "Don't want to be in it better out no scalp taken. Red-man not'in' to do, dere. How know about him? See him dat all. Got eye; why no see him, behind stone wall. Good see, behind stone wall." "Were you across the water yourself, or did you remain in Boston, and see from a distance?"
One brave, in particular, so far forgot the characteristic dignity of the red-man, that he rushed up on the bank, bent forward, clapped a hand on each knee, threw back his head, shut his eyes, opened wide his mouth, and sought to relieve his feelings in one stupendous roar. But it would not do. He became suddenly solemn, glared again, and went at the fish more furiously than ever.
All this occurred to me at the moment, and I mentioned it to my companion as an argument against his own supposition. "No true," answered Susquesus, shaking his head. "That trail he Huron trail, too. Don't know red-man to say so." "But red-men are human as well as pale-faces.
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