At first he allows that pie, that a-way, makes the most profound impression.

But I bars pie, an' tells him to su'gest the biggest thing he strikes, not on no bill of fare.

Tharupon, abandonin' menoos an' wonders of the table, he roominates a moment an' declar's that the steamboat--now that pie is exclooded--ought to get the nomination.
"'The choo-choo boat,' observes this intelligent savage, 'is the paleface's big medicine.' "'You'll have a list of marvels,' I says, 'to avalanche upon the people when you cuts the trail of your ancestral tribe ag'in ?' "'No,' retorts the savage, shakin' his head ontil the skelp-lock whips his y'ears, an' all mighty decisive; 'no; won't tell Injun nothin'.' "'Why not ?' I demands.
"'If I tell,' he says, 'they no believe.

They think it all heap lie.' "Son, consider what a example to travellers is set by that ontootered savage?
That's what makes me say thar be traits possessed of Injuns, personal, which a paleface might improve himse'f by copyin'.
"Bein' white myse'f, I'm born with notions ag'in Injuns.

I learns of their deestruction with relief, an' never sees one pirootin' about, full of life an' vivacity, but the spectacle fills me with vain regrets.