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The Prairie

CHAPTER XXVI
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Go; my father will make what a poor Indian says fit for a white ear." "Speak aloud!" said the trapper, who readily understood the metaphorical manner, in which the Teton expressed a desire that he should become an interpreter of his words into the English language; "speak, my young men listen.

Now, captain, and you too, friend bee-hunter, prepare yourselves to meet the deviltries of this savage, with the stout hearts of white warriors.

If you find yourselves giving way under his threats, just turn your eyes on that noble-looking Pawnee, whose time is measured with a hand as niggardly, as that with which a trader in the towns gives forth the fruits of the Lord, inch by inch, in order to satisfy his covetousness.

A single look at the boy will set you both up in resolution." "My brother has turned his eyes on the wrong path," interrupted Mahtoree, with a complacency that betrayed how unwilling he was to offend his intended interpreter.
"The Dahcotah will speak to my young men ?" "After he has sung in the ear of the flower of the Pale-faces." "The Lord forgive the desperate villain!" exclaimed the old man in English.

"There are none so tender, or so young, or so innocent, as to escape his ravenous wishes.


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