[The Dog Crusoe and His Master by Robert Michael Ballantyne]@TWC D-Link bookThe Dog Crusoe and His Master CHAPTER XIX 14/14
I have often told you so when you would not listen, and when you told me that I had a double heart and told lies.
You were wrong when you said this; but I do not wonder, for you live among nations who do not fear God, and who think it right to lie.
I now repeat to you what I said before. It would be good for the Red-men if they would make peace with the Pale-faces, and if they would make peace with each other.
I will now convince you that I am in earnest, and have all along been speaking the truth." Hereupon Joe Blunt opened his bundle of goods, and presented fully one-half of the gaudy and brilliant contents to the astonished Indians, who seemed quite taken aback by such generous treatment. The result of this was that the two parties separated with mutual expressions of esteem and good-will.
The Indians then returned to the forest, and the white men galloped back to their camp among the hills..
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