It would seem that this lad is a fearless boy, for he has been hanging on their skirts alone, until, like ourselves, he was driven to the grass for a cover.

But he tells me more, my men, and what I am mainly sorry to hear, which is, that the cunning Mahtoree instead of going to blows with the squatter, has become his friend, and that both broods, red and white, are on our heels, and outlying around this very burning plain to circumvent us to our destruction." "How knows he all this to be true ?" demanded Middleton.
"Anan ?" "In what manner does he know, that these things are so ?" "In what manner! Do you think newspapers and town criers are needed to tell a scout what is doing on the prairies, as they are in the bosom of the States?
No gossiping woman, who hurries from house to house to spread evil of her neighbour, can carry tidings with her tongue, so fast as these people will spread their meaning, by signs and warnings, that they alone understand.

'Tis their l'arning, and what is better, it is got in the open air, and not within the walls of a school.

I tell you, captain, that what he says is true." "For that matter," said Paul, "I'm ready to swear to it.

It is reasonable, and therefore it must be true." "And well you might, lad; well you might.