"
"Anan!"
"I say that Ellen is getting uneasy, and as the smoke is lifting from
the plain, it may be prudent to take another flight."
"The boy is reasonable. I had forgotten we were in the midst of a
raging fire, and that Siouxes were round about us, like hungry wolves
watching a drove of buffaloes. But when memory is at work in my old
brain, on times long past, it is apt to overlook the matters of the
day. You say right, my children; it is time to be moving, and now
comes the real nicety of our case. It is easy to outwit a furnace, for
it is nothing but a raging element; and it is not always difficult to
throw a grizzly bear from his scent, for the creatur' is both
enlightened and blinded by his instinct; but to shut the eyes of a
waking Teton is a matter of greater judgment, inasmuch as his deviltry
is backed by reason."
Notwithstanding the old man appeared so conscious of the difficulty of
the undertaking, he set about its achievement with great steadiness
and alacrity. After completing the examination, which had been
interrupted by the melancholy wanderings of his mind, he gave the
signal to his companions to mount.
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