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"Wal," continued Garey, "thar's some difference atween us in point o' pluck, I reckin; and what's wantin' in number we'll make up wi' our rifles. I never valleys two to one wi' Injuns, an' a trifle throw'd in, if ye like." "Look at the ground, Bill! It's all plain. Whar would we be after a volley? They'd have the advantage wi' their bows and lances. Wagh! they could spear us to pieces thar!"
His bow was before him. It was a splendid sight, both horse and rider, as they rose together over the green swells of the prairie; a picture more like that of some Homeric hero than a savage of the wild west. "Wagh!" exclaimed one of the hunters in an undertone; "how they glitter! Look at that 'ar headpiece! It's fairly a-blazin'!" "Ay," rejoined Garey, "we may thank the piece o' brass.
Here Sam condescendingly patted the Second War Chief on the head and nodded approvingly. Of course he did not know as much about the track as Yan did, but he prattled on: "Little Beaver! you're a heap struck on tracks Ugh good! You kin tell by them everything that passes in the night. Wagh! Bully! You're likely to be the naturalist of our Tribe. But you ain't got gumption.
The trapper laughed in his silent fashion, and muttered a few words to himself before he addressed the chief "Let the Dahcotah open his ears very wide," he said 'that big words may have room to enter. His friend the Big-knife comes with an empty hand, and he says that the Teton must fill it." "Wagh! Mahtoree is a rich chief. He is master of the prairies." "He must give the dark-hair."
"Ay, them's the fellows have made something by thar expedition. We are comin' back empty as we went. Wagh!" I had been engaged in saddling my horse, and at this moment came forward. It was not upon the Indians that my eye rested, nor upon the plundered cattle. Another object attracted my gaze, and sent the blood curdling to my heart.
Suddenly he turned, and half rising struck with all his strength. The dog-wood fork fairly bounced upon the Indian's head. "Wagh!" gasped Tutelu. He had been knocked forward, so that he fell with his two hands and almost with his face into his fire. Instantly he was up, before the doctor might strike again. He ran howling, with his head bloody. He had no stomach for another blow.
Each bad a wound above the brisket, and from this the red stream gurled out, and trickled down their still panting sides. Blood welled from their mouths and out of their nostrils. Pools of it were filtering through the prairie turf; and clotted gouts, flung out by the struggling hoof, sprinkled the grass around them! "Oh, heavens! what could it mean?" "Wagh! Santisima!
"Ay, ay," cried several voices, in reply. "'Ee do, do 'ee? Wal; 'ee see 'tain't half as big as the Injun's squash. 'Ee see that, do 'ee?" "Oh, sartinly! Any fool can see that." "Wal; s'pose I plug it at sixty, plump centre?" "Wagh!" cried several, with shrugs of disappointment. "Stick it on a pole, and any o' us can do that," said the principal speaker.
"'Twur turkey-buzzart, then; that's what it wur." "Turkey-buzzard!" echoed everyone. "'Twa'n't any thin' else." "Wagh? that was a stinkin' pill, an' no mistake." "That beats me all hollow." "And when did ye eat the buzzard, old boy?" asked one, suspecting that there might be a story connected with this feat of the earless trapper. "Ay! tell us that, Rube; tell us!" cried several.
"Wagh! it don't beat Garey if he diz hit it," exclaimed a third. What was our amazement at seeing the girl fling off her plumed bonnet, place the gourd upon her head, fold her arms over her bosom, and standing fronting us as calm and immobile as if she had been carved upon the tree! There was a murmur in the crowd.
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