[The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth]@TWC D-Link bookThe Log School-House on the Columbia CHAPTER II 10/23
Know Injuns--you don't.
You are young, but 'tain't best for you to eat all your apples green.
I've always been very particular about the company I keep, if I was born poor and have had to work hard, and never studied no foreign languages.
I warn you!" She raised her voice, and Benjamin heard what she had said.
He suspected her ill-will toward him from her manner, but he comprehended the meaning of her last words. He at first looked puzzled and grieved, then suddenly his thin lips were pressed together; the passion of anger was possessing him, soon to be followed by the purpose of revenge. Mrs.Woods saw that she had gone too far in the matter, and that her spirit and meaning had been discovered by the son of the chief.
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