"I should greatly like to do the same; especially in your behalf,
Captain, who, being a soldier, might find not only pleasure but profit
in examining, more at your ease, into the circumventions and cunning
of an Indian fight. As to our friend, here, it is of but little
matter, how much of this affair he examines, or how little, seeing
that a bee is not to be overcome in the same manner as an Indian."
"Old man, this trifling with our misery is inconsiderate, to give it a
name no harsher--"
"Ay, your grand'ther was of a hot and hurrying mind, and one must not
expect, that the young of a panther will crawl the 'arth like the
litter of a porcupine. Now keep you both silent, and what I say shall
have the appearance of being spoken concerning the movements that are
going on in the bottom; all of which will serve to put jealousy to
sleep, and to shut the eyes of such as rarely close them on wickedness
and cruelty. In the first place, then, you must know that I have
reason to think yonder treacherous Teton has left an order to put us
all to death, so soon as he thinks the deed may be done secretly, and
without tumult.
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