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Now he was within twelve feet and no move; ten feet and Bunny seemed in tranquil sleep; eight feet and now the Fox for the first time seemed to actually see his victim. Yan had hard work to keep from shouting a warning; six feet and now the Fox was plainly preparing for a final spring. "Is it right to let him?" and Yan's heart beat with excitement.
Sam's straw pointed nearly to the house, Yan's a little to the south of the house, and Guy's right back home. "Aha, Sappy, you got to go home; the straw says so." "I ain't goin' to believe no such foolishness." "It's awful unlucky to go against it." "I don't care, I ain't goin' back," said Guy doggedly. "Well, my straw says go to the house; that means go scouting for milk, I reckon."
He volunteered to discipline Char-less if he should ill-treat any of the others, and was about to administer grievous personal punishment for some trifling offense, when Blackhawk gave him a warning that had good effect. Yan's note-book was fully discussed and his drawings greatly admired. He set to work at once with friendly enthusiasm to paint the Boilers' teepee.
"He has, has he? Well, I have a key that will open it," and so he smashed the lid with the axe; then he went through the pockets, got Yan's old silver watch and chain, and in Sam's trousers pocket he got two dollars. "Ha! That's just what I want, sonny," and the tramp put them in his own pockets.
He was no sooner out of sight in the lower branches than Satan entered into Guy's small heart and prompted him thus: "Le's play a joke on him an' clear out." Sam's sense of humour beguiled him. They stuffed Yan's coat and pants with leaves and rubbish, put them properly together with the head-dress, then stuck one of his own arrows through the breast of the coat into the ground and ran away.
Caleb set up a stake in the ground and on that a new shield of wood covered with rawhide; over the rawhide was lightly fastened a piece of sacking. The guests were in a circle around this; at one side were some skins Yan's Lynx and Coon and the two stuffed Owls.
These, then, were his adjoining brothers. What wonder that Yan was daily further from them. But the greatest event of Yan's then early life now took place. His school readers told him about Wilson and Audubon, the first and last American naturalists. Yan wondered why no other great prophet had arisen. But one day the papers announced that at length he had appeared.
"You mean to go back to the Settlement and join the Whites?" "Yep, an' take a Horse an' buggy, too. It's five miles." That was a jarring note. Yan's imagination had pictured a foot expedition through the woods, but this was more sensible, so he yielded. They went to the house to report and had a loving reception from the mother and little Minnie. The men were away.
Presently there came to Yuen Yan's waiting ear a long-drawn cry and the sounds of many shutters being flung open and the tread of hurrying feet. The moments hung about him like the wings of a dragon-dream, but a prudent restraint chained him to the inner chamber. It was fully light when Tsae-che returned, accompanied by one whom she dismissed before she entered.
Yan's manner was convincing, but to do all that in his head was the miracle. Various rude tests were applied and the general opinion prevailed that Yan was right. The farmer's face beamed with admiration for the first time. "Luk at that," he said to the table, "luk at that fur eddication. When'll you be able to do the like?" he said to Sam. "Never," returned his son, with slow promptness.
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