In his angry contempt he could compare him to nothing save a grizzly bear.
Whatever the justice of this last shaggy simile, even Senator Hanway could not deny its formidable side.

A grizzly, whether in fact or in hyperbole, is no one good to meet.

There is a supremacy of the primitive; when the natural and the artificial have collided the latter has more than once come limping off.

Our soldiers cannot make the Indians fight their fashion; the Indians make the soldiers fight _their_ fashion.

If the soldiers were dense enough to insist upon their formation, the Indians--fighting all over the field and each red warrior for himself--would fill them as full of holes as a colander.