The Indian--first touching the boy's head, and making signs over it in the air--then said, "Look." The boy became quite stiff, and stood like a statue, looking into the ink in the hollow of his hand.
(So far, it seemed to me to be juggling, accompanied by a foolish waste of ink.

I was beginning to feel sleepy again, when Penelope's next words stirred me up.) The Indians looked up the road and down the road once more--and then the chief Indian said these words to the boy; "See the English gentleman from foreign parts." The boy said, "I see him." The Indian said, "Is it on the road to this house, and on no other, that the English gentleman will travel to-day ?" The boy said, "It is on the road to this house, and on no other, that the English gentleman will travel to-day." The Indian put a second question--after waiting a little first.

He said: "Has the English gentleman got It about him ?" The boy answered--also, after waiting a little first--"Yes." The Indian put a third and last question: "Will the English gentleman come here, as he has promised to come, at the close of day ?" The boy said, "I can't tell." The Indian asked why.
The boy said, "I am tired.

The mist rises in my head, and puzzles me.

I can see no more to-day." With that the catechism ended.