The Kentuckian observing her at the same time, called to her,--"What, Telie, my girl, are you working upon a holiday?
You should be dressed like the others, and making friends with the stranger lady.

And so git away with you now, and make yourself handsome, and don't stand thar looking as if the gentleman would eat you." "A qu'ar crittur she, poor thing!" said Bruce, looking after her commiseratingly; "and a stranger might think her no more nor half-witted.
But she has sense enough, poor crittur! and, I reckon, is just as smart, if she war not so humble and skittish, as any of my own daughters." "What," said Roland, "is she not then your child ?" "No, no," replied Bruce, shaking his head; "a poor crittur, of no manner of kin whatever.

Her father war an old friend, or acquaintance-like; for, rat it, I won't own friendship for any such apostatised villians, no how:--but the man war taken by the Shawnees; and so as thar war none to befriend her, and she war but a little chit no bigger nor my hand, I took to her myself and raised her.

But the worst of it is, and that's what makes her so wild and skeary, her father, Abel Doe, turned Injun himself, like Girty, Elliot, and the rest of them refugee scoundrels you've h'ard of.

Now _that's_ enough, you see, to make the poor thing sad and frightful; for Abel Doe is a rogue, thar's no denying, and everybody hates and cusses him, as is but his due; and it's natteral, now she's growing old enough to be ashamed of him, she should be ashamed of herself too,--though thar's nothing but her father to charge against her, poor creatur'.