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Me false to me fader," interrupted the white Shawnee, his lamentations breaking forth afresh. "What is your name?" abruptly demanded Peleg. The reply of his companion sounded to him very like Tontileaugo, but although it was repeated several times Peleg was unable to pronounce it distinctly. "I might call you Tonti, and I might call you Henry. Which do you like better?" "No call Tonti."
Then they went back sick and sorry to the woods again. The family Smith was taken into was honored for its uncommon virtue and wisdom. His two brothers, Tontileaugo and Tecaughretanego were men of great sense, with good heads and good hearts. They treated Smith with the greatest love and patience, and took him to task with affectionate mildness when he transgressed the laws of taste or feeling.
He told me what his name was in Shawnee, but I could not quite get it. It sounded like Tontileaugo, and I offered to call him Tonti for short but he didn't like that." "You will live to regret the day you ever took him in," warned Sam. "But he is a white boy," persisted Peleg. "Born white, but raised an Indian. It doesn't make much difference where a man is born.
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