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As he had rucked the shirt all over his head, I couldn't at first see who he was, but I fancied that he was a man in the first stage of D. T. from the way he swore while he wrestled with his rags. When he turned round, and I had made allowance for a lump as big as a pork-pie over one eye, and some green war-paint on the face, and some violet stripes round the neck, I saw that it was Golightly.
I suppose I'll have to go on a peace party to ask him." Sam made no answer, but looked and listened out toward the trail, then said: "Talk of the er Angels, here comes Da." When the big man strode up Yan and Guy became very shy and held back. Sam, in full war-paint, prattled on in his usual style. "Morning, Da; I'm yer kid. Bet ye'r in trouble an' want advice or something."
Fearing to interrupt, lest he should disturb their equanimity, he judged it best to stop where he was. Presently, however, their talk took a turn that proved intensely interesting to him. It was something as follows: She. "Have you seen the hero of the evening?" He. "Who? Do you mean the Portuguese Governor in his war-paint?" She. "No, of course not. You don't call him a hero, do you?
Hamish remembered these names long after they were forgotten by others, and the re-christened Clinch and Holston and French Broad flowed as fairly with their uncouth modern nomenclature as when they were identified by as liquid musical syllables as the lapsing of their own currents; for never did he lose the impression of this night; never faded the mental picture of the Cherokee chief, the war-paint, vermilion and black and white, on his face as he sat before the fire, the waving of the eagle-feathers on his tufted scalp-lock blotting out half the dull-blue landscape below, which had the first hour of the night upon it, and the moon, blooming like a lily, with a fair white chalice reflected in the dark deeps of the Tsullakee River.
He was master in that valley, or nothing. Hence he received the greeting of his old white friends without a sign of cordiality. His naturally fine face was hideous in war-paint, two lines of yellow extending to his ears from the comers of his mouth, and another black line running from the centre of the forehead down between the eyes.
In a few minutes they galloped up; and the leading warriors, decked in war-paint and feathers, dismounted, each of them carrying one or more scalps hanging to the end of his spear.
Before proceeding any further with my narrative and I am now about to approach the grand and awful scene of the tragedy I will attempt, as best I can, to describe the Indian war-paint the costume, the head- dress and attitudes.
Then the women and children were recalled from the forest, the warriors washed the war-paint from their faces, and preparations for feasting were begun.
He had applied his war-paint since entering the Hut; and this, though it indicated an intention to fight in defence of the house, left a picture of startling aspect. There was nothing hostile intended by this visit, however.
His attention was attracted to something high up in a neighbouring tree, that seemed restless, changing its position constantly like an animal of prey. The Frenchman drew a bead upon it, and there came tumbling down at his feet a dead savage, with his war-paint and other Indian paraphernalia adorning his body.
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