But before the grey-head turns his back on the Siouxes, let him look well at them, that he may tell his own chief, how great is a Dahcotah!" "I am not in a hurry to go on my path.

You see a man with a white head, and no woman, Teton; therefore shall I not run myself out of breath, to tell the nations of the prairies what the Siouxes are doing." "It is good.

My father has smoked with the chiefs at many councils," returned Mahtoree, who now thought himself sufficiently sure of the other's favour to go more directly to his object.

"Mahtoree will speak with the tongue of his very dear friend and father.

A young Pale-face will listen when an old man of that nation opens his mouth.