Let the Pawnee say the bitter words and purchase an easy death.

I will answer for his success, provided he speaks before the grave men set their wisdom to back the folly of this fool." The savage Sioux, who heard his words without comprehending their meaning, turned to the speaker and menaced him with death, for his temerity.
"Ay, work your will," said the unflinching old man; "I am as ready now as I shall be to-morrow.

Though it would be a death that an honest man might not wish to die.

Look at that noble Pawnee, Teton, and see what a Red-skin may become, who fears the Master of Life, and follows his laws.

How many of your people has he sent to the distant prairies ?" he continued in a sort of pious fraud, thinking, that while the danger menaced himself, there could surely be no sin in extolling the merits of another; "how many howling Siouxes has he struck, like a warrior in open combat, while arrows were sailing in the air plentier than flakes of falling snow! Go! will Weucha speak the name of one enemy he has ever struck ?" "Hard-Heart!" shouted the Sioux, turning in his fury, and aiming a deadly blow at the head of his victim.