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The redoubted chief of the Nose-ring Indians was decorated in his war-paint, and in his top-knot was a peacock's feather, which had been given him out of the head-dress of the beautiful Princess of Lamballe.
The child clapped her hands, and laughed aloud. "Oh, we have had such fun!" she cried. "Top-knot was very cross at first, and would not let the young speckled hen eat out of the dish with her. So I took one under each arm, and sang and talked to them till they were both in a good humor.
Turdus migratorius. Turdus musicus. Turdus polyglottus, young of. Turdus torquatus. Turkey, wild, pugnacity of young male; wild, notes of the; swelling of the wattles of the male; variety of, with a top-knot; recognition of a dog by a; male, wild, acceptable to domesticated females; wild, first advances made by older females; wild, breast-tuft of bristles of the.
"So it is a school to learn how to shoot and scalp." "Schalp! Vot's dot?" "Cut an Indian's top-knot off with a knife, this way," and Tom made an imaginary slash at Hans' golden locks. "Ton't do dot!" stammered the German boy, falling back. "No, I ton't vant to learn to schalp, noputty." "But you are willing to fight the Indians, are you not?" put in Sam. "We are all going to do that, you know."
It was of a species new to me, being smaller than the common white cockatoo, and having a large scarlet-and-yellow instead of a pine-yellow top-knot. Having stayed about half an hour with them, we remounted our horses, and struck away from the river into the plains, while the natives went up its banks to join their hordes.
The fact is, I hope it isn't, for now that it has gone so far, I'd like to see the top-knot of the earth covered." "Well, it certainly couldn't do any more harm if it got up as high as the moon," responded the captain. They spent four days sailing to and fro over India, and during the first three of those days there were intermittent downpours.
There are some who say that the perfect way for the second to cut off the head is not to cut right through the neck at a blow, but to leave a little uncut, and, as the head hangs by the skin, to seize the top-knot and slice it off, and then submit it for inspection. The reason of this is, lest, the head being struck off at a blow, the ceremony should be confounded with an ordinary execution.
The order came none too soon, for had it been given one minute later I would have had not less than two hundred Indians upon me. As the soldiers came up I swung the Indian chieftain's top-knot and bonnet in the air, and shouted: "The first scalp for Custer." General Merritt, seeing that he could not now ambush the Indians, ordered the whole regiment to charge upon them.
When he lets it out of its cage, it hops on to his knee, and claws its way up his great big body, and rubs its top-knot against his sallow double chin in the most caressing manner imaginable.
That 'ere means I had my ha'r lifted ten years ago. The Sioux war the skunks that done it. After they took my top-knot off. It had grow'd on ag'in and that's why they call me Baldy. In the mean time the door had been closed, and all secured.
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