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After making himself sure of the seat of life, by gently
removing the folds of the intervening cloth, he raised his keen
weapon, and was about to unite his strength and skill in the impending
blow, when the young man threw his brawny arm carelessly backward,
exhibiting in the action the vast volume of its muscles.
The sagacious and wary Teton paused. It struck his acute faculties
that sleep was less dangerous to him, at that moment, than even death
itself might prove. The smallest noise, the agony of struggling, with
which such a frame would probably relinquish its hold of life,
suggested themselves to his rapid thoughts, and were all present to
his experienced senses. He looked back into the encampment, turned his
head into the thicket, and glanced his glowing eyes abroad into the
wild and silent prairies. Bending once more over the respited victim,
he assured himself that he was sleeping heavily, and then abandoned
his immediate purpose in obedience alone to the suggestions of a more
crafty policy.


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