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The Rulers of the Lakes

CHAPTER IV
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It is the first time that I have heard it used since we left the care of our teacher in Albany.

But I came to the solution by a circular road, because I wished you to see it before I told it to you.

You did see it, and so I feel encouraged over the progress of my pupil." "Thanks, Tayoga, I appreciate the compliment, and, as I said before, your modesty also appeals to me." "You waste words, Dagaeoga, but you have always been a great talker.
Now, watch the birds." Tayoga laughed softly.

The Indian now and then, in his highest estate, used stately forms of rhetoric, and it pleased the young Onondaga, who had been so long in the white man's school, to employ sometimes the most orotund English.

It enabled him to develop his vein of irony, with which he did not spare Robert, just as Robert did not spare him.
"I will watch the birds," said young Lennox.


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