I guess if they weren't they wouldn't be squaw-men." "My father isn't shiftless," she challenged, at which he remained silent, refusing to go on record.

"Isn't a half-breed just as good as a white ?" "Look here," said he.

"What are you driving at ?" "I'm a 'blood,'" she declared, recklessly, "and I want to know what people think of me.

The men around here have never made me feel conscious of it, but--" "You're afraid of these new people who are coming, eh?
Well, don't worry about that, Miss.

It wouldn't make any difference to me or to any of your friends whether you were red, white, black, or yellow." "But it would make a difference with some people ?" insisted the girl.
"Oh, I reckon it would with Eastern people.