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The wonder of the young warrior was, however, much more
tempered and dignified than that of his Christian acquaintances. While
Middleton and Paul felt the tremor, which shook the persons of their
dependant companions, thrilling through their own quickened blood, the
glowing eye of the Indian rolled from one to another, as if it could
never quail before the rudest assaults. His gaze, after making the
circuit of every wondering countenance, finally settled in a steady
look on the equally immovable features of the trapper. The silence was
first broken by Dr. Battius, in the ejaculation of--"Order, primates;
genus, homo; species, prairie!"
"Ay--ay--the secret is out," said the old trapper, shaking his head,
like one who congratulated himself on having mastered the mystery of
some knotty difficulty. "The lad has been in the grass for a cover;
the fire has come upon him in his sleep, and having lost his horse, he
has been driven to save himself under that fresh hide of a buffaloe.
No bad invention, when powder and flint were wanting to kindle a ring.


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