"Ah! he liv'd in the settlements, and was wise only after their fashions.

But you have often seen him; and you have heard him discourse of Uncas, and of the wilderness ?" "Often! he was then an officer of the king; but when the war took place between the crown and her colonies, my grandfather did not forget his birthplace, but threw off the empty allegiance of names, and was true to his proper country; he fought on the side of liberty." "There was reason in it; and what is better, there was natur'! Come, sit ye down beside me, lad; sit ye down, and tell me of what your grand'ther used to speak, when his mind dwelt on the wonders of the wilderness." The youth smiled, no less at the importunity than at the interest manifested by the old man; but as he found there was no longer the least appearance of any violence being contemplated, he unhesitatingly complied.
"Give it all to the trapper by rule, and by figures of speech," said Paul, very coolly taking his seat on the other side of the young soldier.

"It is the fashion of old age to relish these ancient traditions, and, for that matter, I can say that I don't dislike to listen to them myself." Middleton smiled again, and perhaps with a slight air of derision; but, good-naturedly turning to the trapper, he continued-- "It is a long, and might prove a painful story.

Bloodshed and all the horrors of Indian cruelty and of Indian warfare are fearfully mingled in the narrative." "Ay, give it all to us, stranger," continued Paul; "we are used to these matters in Kentuck, and, I must say, I think a story none the worse for having a few scalps in it!" "But he told you of Uncas, did he ?" resumed the trapper, without regarding the slight interruptions of the bee-hunter, which amounted to no more than a sort of by-play.

"And what thought he and said he of the lad, in his parlour, with the comforts and ease of the settlements at his elbow ?" "I doubt not he used a language similar to that he would have adopted in the woods, and had he stood face to face, with his friend--" "Did he call the savage his friend; the poor, naked, painted warrior?
he was not too proud then to call the Indian his friend ?" "He even boasted of the connection; and as you have already heard, bestowed a name on his first-born, which is likely to be handed down as an heir-loom among the rest of his descendants." "It was well done! like a man: ay! and like a Christian, too! He used to say the Delaware was swift of foot--did he remember that ?" "As the antelope! Indeed, he often spoke of him by the appellation of Le Cerf Agile, a name he had obtained by his activity." "And bold, and fearless, lad!" continued the trapper, looking up into the eyes of his companion, with a wistfulness that bespoke the delight he received in listening to the praises of one, whom it was so very evident, he had once tenderly loved.
"Brave as a blooded hound! Without fear! He always quoted Uncas and his father, who from his wisdom was called the Great Serpent, as models of heroism and constancy." "He did them justice! he did them justice! Truer men were not to be found in tribe or nation, be their skins of what colour they might.