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"And do you mean to shoot Ellen and the captain's lady across; or do
you intend them to go, trout fashion, with their mouths under water?"
"Is this river too deep to be forded?" asked Middleton, who, like
Paul, began to consider the impossibility of transporting her, whose
safety he valued more than his own, to the opposite shore.
"When the mountains above feed it with their torrents, it is, as you
see, a swift and powerful stream. Yet have I crossed its sandy bed, in
my time, without wetting a knee. But we have the Sioux horses; I
warrant me, that the kicking imps will swim like so many deer."
"Old trapper," said Paul, thrusting his fingers into his mop of a
head, as was usual with him, when any difficulty confounded his
philosophy, "I have swam like a fish in my day, and I can do it again,
when there is need; nor do I much regard the weather; but I question
if you get Nelly to sit a horse, with this water whirling like a mill-
race before her eyes; besides, it is manifest the thing is not to be
done dry shod.


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