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All the world of Barchester, and all that portion of the world of London which is concerned with the lancet and the scalping-knife, were well aware of this: they were continually writing against each other; continually speaking against each other; but yet they had never hitherto come to that positive personal collision which is held to justify a cut direct.
And now the crowds still lingered under the glass roof of the big passenger shed, for word had gone out that another train coming across the bridge was loaded with more troops, and there was a fascination in watching these prospective victims of the stake and scalping-knife.
"What say you, men, shall we cast the lot to see who takes the scalp of Magua, the great chief of the Hurons?" It was done. The short stick was drawn by Little Tim to his inexpressible joy. "Take the scalping-knife, brave scout," said Henry Burns, handing him a huge wooden affair, whittled out for the purpose.
I only remained one day at Victoria, and the 25th of November found me again en route for Edmonton. Our Cree had, however, disappeared. One night when he was eating his supper with his scalping-knife a knife, by the way, with which he had taken, he informed us, three Black feet scalps I asked him why he had come away with us from Battle River.
He ploughed, and sowed, and reaped, and gathered, with the rifle slung over his shoulders; and, at every turn, he halted, listening, with his ear turned toward his home; for well he knew that, any moment, the scream of his wife, or the wail of his children, might tell of the up-lifted tomahawk, or the murderous scalping-knife.
Hole in the Day, however, gave up two of his men, as hostages to be kept at Fort Snelling until the murderers should be given up. The Dahcotahs, being obliged for the time to defer the hope of revenge, returned to their village to bury their dead. We rarely consider the Indian as a member of a family we associate him with the tomahawk and scalping-knife.
He had got within a few feet of the tree, when, in range of the opening, he saw a figure apparently watching him. Charlie thought his hour had come; that it was a savage ready with his scalping-knife, and had given up all for lost, when the dark form moved from out the shadow towards him, and to his consternation he saw that it was Bub, who trudged forward, saying in a loud whisper,
He was not quite three years old, and, of course, could not so well understand the dreadful loss they had sustained as John, who was two years older, and who never recovered from the shock of the fearful tragedy, and from the injury done his nervous system by the cruel scalping-knife. He remained at Col.
"May me owld head be scraped wid a scalping-knife, an' me hands be made into furnace-grates for being away," ejaculated the servant, as the tears streamed down his cheeks. "No, Teddy, you are not in the least to blame, nor is it my fault," impetuously interrupted the missionary. "Till me how it was, Mister Harvey."
Through pride and faults of temper he had impaired his usefulness and marred his record. Even so there was that which rescued his work from the stigma of failure. He had guarded his people from the tomahawk and the scalping-knife. With prescient eye he had foreseen the imperial greatness of the West. Whatever his shortcomings, they had not been those of meanness or timidity.
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