What Sioux has a tongue like my father?
No; let his words be very soft, but let them be very clear.

Mahtoree will give skins and buffaloes.

He will give the young men of the Pale-faces wives, but he cannot give away any who live in his own lodge." Perfectly satisfied, himself, with this laconic reply, the chief was moving towards his expecting counsellors, when suddenly returning, he interrupted the translation of the trapper by adding-- "Tell the Great Buffaloe" (a name by which the Tetons had already christened Ishmael), "that Mahtoree has a hand which is always open.
See," he added, pointing to the hard and wrinkled visage of the attentive Esther, "his wife is too old, for so great a chief.

Let him put her out of his lodge.

Mahtoree loves him as a brother.