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And I thought of our trivial and petty and warring sects, and was silent and ashamed. The Wyandotte wiped his powerful jaw with a handful of dead leaves, and looked coldly around at the little circle of men who differed with one another so profoundly in their religious beliefs. "Is this then the hour and the place to discuss such matters, and irritate the Unseen?"
I'll bet the gray Wyandotte pony against your mare that we start an elk or a black-tailed deer, or likely as not, a bighorn, before we are two miles out of camp. I'll take my squaw's old yellow horse; you can't whip her more than four miles an hour, but she is as good for the mountains as a mule." I mounted the black mule which Raymond usually rode.
And for a long while there was neither sound nor sun-glitter from him. Then, without even a glance or a word for me, the Mohican quietly dropped back from the lead, waited until the last Oneida had passed, and moved swiftly on a diagonal course to the left, which brought him in the tracks of the Wyandotte.
Nick no hero gone away Nick nebber come ag'in Wyandotté hero who no trust Wyandotté? Yengeese always trust great chief." "I shall take you at your word, Wyandotté, and tell you everything, hoping to make an ally of you. But, first explain to me, why you left the Hut, last night friends do not desert friends." "Why leave wigwam? Because wanted to. Wyandotté come when he want; go when he want.
"Even Yengeese gen'ral hide whip, when he see enemy. Soldier can't fight when back sore. When battle near, den all good friend; when battle over, den flog, flog, flog. Why talk so? Cap'in nebber strike Wyandotté." "Your memory must be short, to say this! I thought an Indian kept a better record of what passed." "No man dare strike Wyandotté!" exclaimed the Indian, with energy.
"Robber Hawk!" screamed all of her cousins, first, second, and third. Loud and long barked Rover and Brownie. And little Wienerwurst stopped chasing the pretty pink pigeons. And even Mr. Stuckup, the turkey, had to join in the hubbub. "Horrible robber, horrible robber," he gobbled. But Mother Wyandotte had called to her children.
And now it had turned out a real little duckling, that black little fellow Mother Wyandotte was scolding so. "Don't don't don't don't you do it," she was shouting still. But little black Duckie had made up his mind. He was headed straight for that shining water. Around Mother Wyandotte gathered all her relatives to talk over the matter. They were disgusted.
"Well, we told the committee that we came through Ioway, and that to Ioway we must go; so they rather let up on us, and set us ashore just opposite Wyandotte.
Mayaro and I ate apart, seated together upon a knoll whence we could look down upon the river and upon the fire, which I now ordered to be covered. From where I sat I could see the burly Wyandotte, squatting with the others at his feed, and from time to time my glance returned to him.
Even Father Wyandotte, the great white rooster with the magnificent red comb and curling white plumes on his tail, forgot that other rooster of whom he was so jealous. For the rooster who was always perched on the weather-vane on the barn was up so high and he shone like gold. But now Father Wyandotte was not jealous.
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