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played with the ears of his hound; fingered his own rustic garment,
and opened and shut the pan of his rifle, with hands that trembled in
a manner that would have implied their total unfitness to wield the
weapon. When the other had concluded, he hoarsely added--
"Your grand'ther didn't then entirely forget the white man!"
"So far from that, there are already three among us, who have also
names derived from that scout."
"A name, did you say?" exclaimed the old man, starting; "what, the
name of the solitary, unl'arned hunter? Do the great, and the rich,
and the honoured, and, what is better still, the just, do they bear
his very, actual name?"
"It is borne by my brother, and by two of my cousins, whatever may be
their titles to be described by the terms you have mentioned."
"Do you mean the actual name itself; spelt with the very same letters,
beginning with an N and ending with an L?"
"Exactly the same," the youth smilingly replied. "No, no, we have
forgotten nothing that was his.


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