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At Home And Abroad

CHAPTER V
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But at last his patience yielded, and, in moving, he made a slight noise.

The Indian saw him, gave a wild, snorting sound of indignation and pain, and strode away.
What feelings must consume their hearts at such moments! I scarcely see how they can forbear to shoot the white man where he stands.
But the power of fate is with, the white man, and the Indian feels it.
This same gentleman told of his travelling through the wilderness with an Indian guide.

He had with him a bottle of spirit which he meant to give him in small quantities, but the Indian, once excited, wanted the whole at once.

"I would not," said Mr .-- --, "give it him, for I thought, if he got really drunk, there was an end to his services as a guide.

But he persisted, and at last tried to take it from me.


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