The women and children of a Pale-face are not used to go far on foot.

Let them be sought where you left them." The eyes of the Teton flashed fire as he answered-- "They are gone: but Mahtoree is a wise chief, and his eyes can see a great distance!" "Does the partisan of the Tetons see men on these naked fields ?" retorted the trapper, with great steadiness of mien.

"I am very old, and my eyes grow dim.

Where do they stand ?" The chief remained silent a moment, as if he disdained to contest any further the truth of a fact, concerning which he was already satisfied.

Then pointing to the traces on the earth, he said, with a sudden transition to mildness, in his eye and manner-- "My father has learnt wisdom, in many winters; can he tell me whose moccasin has left this trail ?" "There have been wolves and buffaloes on the prairies; and there may have been cougars too." Mahtoree glanced his eye at the thicket, as if he thought the latter suggestion not impossible.