[The Prairie by J. Fenimore Cooper]@TWC D-Link bookThe Prairie CHAPTER XXVI 19/33
Mahtoree is a great chief. His hand is never shut." "Teton," returned the trapper, shaking his head in evidence of the strong disapprobation with which he heard this language, "the tongue of a Red-skin must be coloured white, before it can make music in the ears of a Pale-face.
Should your words be spoken, my daughters would shut their ears, and Mahtoree would seem a trader to their eyes.
Now listen to what comes from a grey-head, and then speak accordingly.
My people is a mighty people.
The sun rises on their eastern and sets on their western border.
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