"One or two Iroquois at least will not wear the scalp of white woman or child at their belts." "Wish they'd try to rush us," said Shif'less Sol.

"I never felt so full of fight in my life before." "They may try it," said Henry.

"I understand that at the big battle of the Oriskany, farther up in the North, the Iroquois would wait until a white man behind a tree would fire, then they would rush up and tomahawk him before he could reload." "They don't know how fast we kin reload," said Long Jim, "an' they don't know that we've got these double-barreled pistols, either." "No, they don't," said Henry, "and it's a great thing for us to have them.

Suppose we spread out a little.

So long as we keep them from getting a lodging on the solid earth we hold them at a great disadvantage." Henry and Paul moved off a little toward the right, and the others toward the left.