"Yes, yes, it is plain there has been a long struggle atween the two.

The master has tried hard to save his beast, and the flames must have been very greedy, or he would have had better success." "Harkee, old trapper," interrupted Paul, pointing to a little distance, where the ground was drier, and the herbage had, in consequence, been less luxuriant; "just call them two horses.

Yonder lies another." "The boy is right! can it be, that the Tetons have been caught in their own snares?
Such things do happen; and here is an example to all evil-doers.

Ay, look you here, this is iron; there have been some white inventions about the trappings of the beast--it must be so--it must be so--a party of the knaves have been skirting in the grass after us, while their friends have fired the prairie, and look you at the consequences; they have lost their beasts, and happy have they been if their own souls are not now skirting along the path, which leads to the Indian heaven." "They had the same expedient at command as yourself," rejoined Middleton, as the party slowly proceeded, approaching the other carcass, which lay directly on their route.
"I know not that.

It is not every savage that carries his steel and flint, or as good a rifle-pan as this old friend of mine.