Your repeated services have won you the gratitude of hundreds----" "Cap'n," said the Huron, speaking quickly and earnestly, "the Shawnees have found de lodge ob Oonomoo--his wife runnin' trough de woods--de Shawnees chasin' her--Oonomoo must go." "God bless me! God bless me!" exclaimed Captain Prescott; "and here the noble-hearted fellow has been waiting a half-hour without saying a word, while my infernal tongue has been going all the time; that tongue will be the death of me yet.

Your wife is in danger, eh?
The ---- Shawnees at their deviltry again here.

See here, men," said he, turning around, "Oonomoo's wife is in danger, and are we going to help her out or not, eh?
I want to know that.

Are we going to stand by and let him do it alone, when for twenty years he has worked night and day for us ?" "NO!" responded every voice, in thunder tones.
"I say, Captain, if I ain't counted in this muss, I'll never smile agin.

Freeze me to death on a stump, if I won't walk into their meat-houses in style, then my name ain't Tom Lannoch." "Jes' place me whar tha'll be some heads to crack, with gougin' and punchin' thrown in, and then count me in." "And hyer's Dick Smaddock, what----" "Order!" roared the Captain; "I'll arrange matters without any gabbing from you.