I bore it like a warrior and a man; there was a reason that I should bear it: but when that reason was ended, I bethought me to get beyond the accursed sounds.

It was trying to the courage and to the habits, but I had heard of these vast and naked fields, and I came hither to escape the wasteful temper of my people.

Tell me, Dahcotah, have I not done well ?" The trapper laid his long lean finger on the naked shoulder of the Indian as he ended, and seemed to demand his felicitations on his ingenuity and success, with a ghastly smile, in which triumph was singularly blended with regret.

His companion listened intently, and replied to the question by saying, in the sententious manner of his race-- "The head of my father is very grey; he has always lived with men, and he has seen everything.

What he does is good; what he speaks is wise.
Now let him say, is he sure that he is a stranger to the Big-knives, who are looking for their beasts on every side of the prairies and cannot find them ?" "Dahcotah, what I have said is true.