Pawnee, I love you; but being a Christian man, I cannot be the runner to bear such a message." "If my father is afraid the Tetons will hear him, let him whisper it softly to our old men." "As for fear, young warrior, it is no more the shame of a Pale-face than of a Red-skin.

The Wahcondah teaches us to love the life he gives; but it is as men love their hunts, and their dogs, and their carabines, and not with the doting that a mother looks upon her infant.

The Master of Life will not have to speak aloud twice when he calls my name.

I am as ready to answer to it now, as I shall be to-morrow, or at any time it may please his mighty will.

But what is a warrior without his traditions?
Mine forbid me to carry your words." The chief made a dignified motion of assent, and here there was great danger that those feelings of confidence, which had been so singularly awakened, would as suddenly subside.