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Neither her sudden disappearance, nor any of the
arrangements we have mentioned, seemed, however, to excite the
smallest surprise among the remainder of the party. The young men, who
had already completed their tasks with the axe, were all engaged after
their lounging and listless manner; some in bestowing equitable
portions of the fodder among the different animals; others in plying
the heavy pestle of a moveable homminy-mortar[*]; and one or two in
wheeling the remainder of the wagons aside, and arranging them in such
a manner as to form a sort of outwork for their otherwise defenceless
bivouac.
[*] Homminy, is a dish composed chiefly of cracked corn, or maize.
These several duties were soon performed, and, as darkness now began
to conceal the objects on the surrounding prairie, the shrill-toned
termagant, whose voice since the halt had been diligently exercised
among her idle and drowsy offspring, announced, in tones that might
have been heard at a dangerous distance, that the evening meal waited
only for the approach of those who were to consume it.


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