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In the Carquinez Woods

CHAPTER VIII
19/23

It ain't Low.

It's L'Eau Dormante, Sleeping Water, an Injin name." "And what does that prove ?" returned Teresa.

"Only that Indians clap a nick-name on any stranger, white or red, who may camp with them.

Why, even his own father, a white man, the wretch who begot him and abandoned him,--HE had an Indian name--Loup Noir." "What name did you say ?" "Le Loup Noir, the Black Wolf.

I suppose you'd call him an Indian, too?
Eh! What's the matter?
We're walking too fast.


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