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Peter Sitz has been in the clutches of these villains many a day, an' yet, 'cordin' to Jacob's story, he's as sound an' hearty as when he left Cherry Valley." "Ay; but his life has been saved because Joseph Brant knew him before the dream of bein' made great sachem of the Six Nations turned that redskin into the most bloodthirsty of savages."
After due deliberation, therefore, it was decided that Champlain and four others should accompany a party of Huron and Algonquin Indians upon one of their forays into the country of the Iroquois, this being the only way in which the Frenchmen could be sure of their redskin guides.
He grabbed me an' started pullin' me ter the woods, an' then, Sonny, somethin' happened " Tom looked at the long rifle in its buck's horn rest and smiled: "Old 'Speakeasy' up thar stretched her long neck through a chink in the logs an' said somethin' ter Mr. Redskin. She didn't raise her voice much louder'n a whisper. She jist kinder sighed: "Kerpeow!"
An Indian walks with his toes pointed inward; this individual, even as he ran, pointed his toes out. He was certain, therefore, that his enemy was no wandering redskin. "It was Halpen I am sure of it!" muttered the youth, striking into the trail at last and continuing the journey upon which the darkness had overtaken him. "He believes that he has killed me. I only hope he will not be undeceived.
There is a dividing ridge in the great northern wilderness of America, whereon lies a lakelet of not more than twenty yards in diameter. It is of crystal clearness and profound depth, and on the still evenings of the Indian summer its surface forms a perfect mirror, which might serve as a toilet-glass for a Redskin princess.
With a gesture of despair. I turned round. "Have they all gone back?" I asked. "I think so," Menzies replied huskily. "They will rush us again directly, and fire the bedding and the wood. It's all up with us!" Crack! A gun spoke shrilly from a loophole on the right, and Baptiste's voice shouted with elation: "Bonne! bonne! another redskin! He ran out from beneath the window!
Fred had detected the rustling movement among the shrubbery made by the redskin in stealing upon them, but he saw nothing of the savage himself, and was not a little startled when his friend fired so quickly, and the result was so manifest.
I saw them myself, and even ate of their venison, so lately as last winter." "Those old fellows must have each lived a great deal more than his century, Jack. They were with my grandfather in the old French war, as active, useful men older, then, than my grandfather!" "Ay! a nigger or a redskin, before all others, for holding on to life, when they have been temperate.
In its evolution through many tongues it has suffered numbers of variations; one of these being turtle, which we use to-day to designate the smaller land tortoises. Terrapin and its old forms terrapene and turpin, on the contrary, originated in the New World, in the language of the American Redskin.
Two of the savages shook themselves free, and bounded to their feet nimbly as cats, but Legget and the other redskin became engaged in a terrific combat. It was a wrestling whirl, so fierce and rapid as to render blows ineffectual. The leaves scattered as if in a whirlwind.
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