He listens like a deer to the step of the cougar." "Such are the wise and uns'archable ways of One who alone knows good from evil!" exclaimed the trapper, in English.

"To some He grants cunning, and on others He bestows the gift of manhood! It is humbling, and it is afflicting to see so noble a creatur' as this, who has fou't in many a bloody fray, truckling before his superstition like a beggar asking for the bones you would throw to the dogs.

The Lord will forgive me for playing with the ignorance of the savage, for He knows I do it in no mockery of his state, or in idle vaunting of my own; but in order to save mortal life, and to give justice to the wronged, while I defeat the deviltries of the wicked! Teton," speaking again in the language of the listener, "I ask you, is not that a wonderful medicine?
If the Dahcotahs are wise, they will not breathe the air he breathes, nor touch his robes.

They know, that the Wahconshecheh (bad spirit) loves his own children, and will not turn his back on him that does them harm." The old man delivered this opinion in an ominous and sententious manner, and then rode apart as if he had said enough.

The result justified his expectations.