18/63 You do not yet know these men--the same savages who once accounted for another Pakenham at New Orleans--hardy as buffaloes, fierce as wolves. Wait and see them come pouring across the mountains into Oregon. Then make your report to this Pakenham. Ask him if England wishes to fight our backwoodsmen once more!" "You credit me with very much ability!" she smiled. What conquests you have made in the diplomacy of the Old World I do not know. |