But, look you, Wat, why are all your family here ?--I did think, when I first saw them on the trail, some with their twisted and some with smooth bores, tomahawks, and scalping-knives, that they took us for Indians.

If you hadn't come forward now, civilly, I should have been for giving your boys some mutton-chops, by way of a cold cut." "Well, George, you may do that yet, old fellow, for here we have all come to take our Sunday dinner.

You are not in the notion that we shall let you take possession here so easily, without even sending us word, and paying us no rent--no compensation ?" "Why, no, Wat--I knew you and your boys too well for that.

I did look, you see, to have a bit of a brush, and have made some few preparations to receive you with warmth and open arms," was the response of Dexter, pointing as he spoke to the well-guarded condition of his intrenchments, and to his armed men, who were now thickly clustering about him.
Munro saw plainly that this was no idle boast, and that the disposition of his enemy's force, without some stratagem, set at defiance any attack under present circumstances.

Still he did not despair, and taught in Indian warfare, such a position was the very one to bring out his energies and abilities.