The daughters of the Pale-faces wish to know why the Great Teton has come into his lodge ?" Mahtoree regarded his interrogator with a surprise, which showed how extraordinary he deemed the question.

Then placing himself in a posture of condescension, after a moment's delay, he answered-- "Sing in the ears of the dark-eye.

Tell her the lodge of Mahtoree is very large, and that it is not full.

She shall find room in it, and none shall be greater than she.

Tell the light-hair, that she too may stay in the lodge of a brave, and eat of his venison.