But the mother has turned to the warriors as they press through the crowd; tears enough have been shed, it is time to think of revenge.

"Look at your friend," she says, "look how heavily lies the strong arm, and see, he is still, though his wife and aged mother call upon him.

Who has done this?
who has killed the brave warrior?
bring me the murderer, that I may cut him on pieces." It needed not to call upon the warriors who stood around.

They were excited enough.

Bad Hail stood near, his eyes bloodshot with rage, his lip quivering, and every trembling limb telling of the tempest within.
Shah-co-pee, the orator of the Dahcotahs, and "The Nest," their most famous hunter; the tall form of the aged chief "Man in the cloud" leaned against the railing, his sober countenance strangely contrasting with the fiend-like look of his wife; Grey Iron and Little Hill, with brave after brave, all crying vengeance to the foe, death to the Chippeway!.