What do you think of it, Tayoga ?" "The Great Bear is right," replied the Onondaga.

"He is always right when he is not wrong." "Come now, Tayoga, are you making game of me ?" "Not so, my brother, because the Great Bear is nearly always right and very seldom wrong.

It is given only to Manitou never to be wrong." "That's better, Tayoga.

If I can keep up a high average of accuracy I'm satisfied." Tayoga's English was always precise and a trifle bookish, like that of a man speaking a language he has learned in a school, which in truth was the case with the Onondaga.

Like the celebrated Thayendanegea, the Mohawk, otherwise known as Joseph Brant, he had been sent to a white school and he had learned the English of the grammarian.