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"Nay--nay--I do not call them robbers, for it is the usage of their
people, and what may be called the prairie law."
"I have come five hundred miles to find a place where no man can ding
the words of the law in my ears," said Ishmael, fiercely, "and I am
not in a humour to stand quietly at a bar, while a red-skin sits in
judgment. I tell you, trapper, if another Sioux is seen prowling
around my camp, wherever it may be, he shall feel the contents of old
Kentuck," slapping his rifle, in a manner that could not be easily
misconstrued, "though he wore the medal of Washington,[*] himself. I
call the man a robber who takes that which is not his own."
[*] The American government creates chiefs among the western tribes,
and decorates them with silver medals hearing the impression of
the different presidents. That of Washington is the most prized.
"The Teton, and the Pawnee, and the Konza, and men of a dozen other
tribes, claim to own these naked fields."
"Natur' gives them the lie in their teeth.


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