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FROM TUG N. T. MORNING CHRONICLE.
STANZAS.
“ And false the light o/i glory's plume” Moore.
We may twine the green wreath round the brow of
the brave,
"VVe may tread in the footsteps of glory,
And fame from oblivion a record may save
That shallAaake us resplendent in story.
Tot what is the wreath that the world holds so liigh ?
Will it free vt; from care of the morrow ?
Will it dry the big tear-drop in misery’s eye,
Or soften the throbbings of sorrow ?
No, not in this world must we look for relief,
From the bright gilded pages of story;
For the wounds that are made by the arrows of
grief,
Are ne’er hosted by the bandage of glory:
But to brighten the cloud which may darken our
brow,
The hope of eternity’s given.
Extract from Mr. Cooper's -Vere Novel,
“ THE PRAIRIE.”
CHAPTER III.
“ Catnf, come, thou art as hot a Jack in thy mood, as
any in Italy: and as soon moved to be moody, and as
totfi'seyaody to be moved.”—Romeo and Juliet.
houglnthe trapper manifested some sur-
he perceived that another hu-
^Yns npnroaching him, and that,
r- djSPQtion opposite to the place
ejfflSraat had made his encamp-
* with the steadiness of one Ioj g
to scenes of danger
here gives offence, I am sorry; ana^ni @5
my way. It is more than likely that'when
your young friend has told het story ,^-you
■trill Ko KoIIai* miron 4a KaIia«ta minn ^ .
will be better given to believe mine.
undo, iUpncle veu can call one who I’ll
swear is no relation, has.hoppled his teams,
and tell the oW man my mind now, as I shall
be a year hence. You have tfnly to say a
* Friend !’ said the youth, lifting a cap oF "siQgl^word,* tjncTffihe thing is done ; let him
- . — V V. M _ .1 ..^ A Z 1— !~ X!ml*f_ a «A am iNwl
as is a man/
he said, ‘ and one wb r .
in his veins, or his step
It will he well to he ready
for^fiie worst, as the half-and-halfs that one
white blood
would be lighter.
Jjgets in these distant districts,, are alto
gether more barbarous that the real savage.’
ye raised his rifle while he spoke, and
aspired himself of the state of its flint, as
wnlas of the priming, by manual exarnina-
Rut liis arm was arrested, while in
thJbV’t of throwing forward the muzzle of
tbUV,by the eager and trembling hands
of b^companion. -
‘ FolGod’s sake, be not too hasty,’ she
said, ‘ irfnay be a friend—an acquaintance—
a neigh tbur.’
‘ A firnd !’ the old man repeated, delibe
rately r/leashig himself at the same time
from hi grasp, ‘Friends are.rare in any
land, aid less in this, perhaps, than in an
other; \nd the neighborhood is too thinly
settled i> make it likely, that he who comes
towards i\sis even an acquaintance.*
‘ Rut th ugh a stranger, you would not
seek his blood!’
The trapver earnestly regarded her anx
ious and f;£ht<
then he d;
hi
t-tt*
■features a moment* and
butt of his l iflei pn foe
t or himself
\
i wmjnm'v iiini |[ iiiiiiii| * she is right;
spilt, to store the life of
'eftfhpig^ useless, and so near his allotted time.
iMUrn come on ; my skins, my traps, and
jfefyeh mv rifle shall be his, if he sees fit to
demand them.’
‘ He will ask for neither—he wants nei
ther,’ returned the girl; ‘ if he be an honest
man, he will surely be content with his own,
and ask for nothing that is the property of
another.’
The trapper had not time to express the
surprise h e felt at t!,e incoherent and con
tradictory' language he heard ; for the man
who was advancing, was already within
fifty feet of the place whore they stood.—In
the mean time Hector had not been an in
different witness of-what was passing. At
the sound of the distant footsteps, he had
arisen from his warm bed at the feet of his
master-; and now, as the stranger appeared in
open view, he stalked slowly towards him,
crouching to the earth like a panther about
to take his leap.
* Call in your dog,’ said a firm, deep,
manly voice, in tones of friendship, rather
than of menace; * I love a hound, and
should be snrrv to do aJnjury to the animal.’
.‘ You hear what is said about you, pup?’
the trapper answered; ‘ come hither fool.
His growl and his bark are all that is left
him now ; you may come on, friend ; the
hound is -toothless.’
The stranger instantly' profited by the in
telligence. He sprang eagerly forward, and
at the next instant stood at the side of Ellen
Wade. A fler assuring himself of the identi
ty of the latter, by a hasty but keen glance,
he turned his attention, with a quickness
and impatience that proved the interest he
took in the result, to a similar examination
of her companion.
* From what cloud have you fallen, my
good old man V ho said in a careless, off-
hard, heedless manner, that seemed too
natural to be assumed. ‘ Or do you actual
ly live hereaway, in the prairies V
* 1 have been long on earth, and never l
hope nigher to Heaven than I am at this mo
ment,' returned the- trapper; * my dwelling,
if dwelling 1 may be said to have, is not far
distant. Now may I take the liberty with
you, that you are so willing to take with
others ? Whence do you come, and where
is your home?’
* Softly, softly, when I have done with
my catechism it will be time to begin with
yours. What sport is this, you follow by
moon-light ? You are not dodging the buffa
loes at such an hour !*
' ‘ I am, as you see* going from an encamp
merit of travellers, which lies over yonder
swell in the land, to my own wigwam; in
doing so 1 wrong no man.'
* All /air and true. And you got this
-young woman to show you the way, because
she knows it so well and you know so little
about it.'
* I met her* as 1 have met you, by acci
dent. For ten tiresome years have I dwelt
on these open fields, and never, before to
night, have 1 found human beings with white
fXUis on them at this hour. If my presenc-
skins from his head, and running his fingers
leisurely through a dense mass of black and
shaggy locks, * if I ever laid eyes on the girl
before to-night, may I—”
‘ You’ve said enough, Paul,’ interrupted
the female, laying her hand on his mouth
with a familiarity that gave something very
-like the lie direct to his intended assevera
tion. ‘ Our secret will be safe with this
honest old man. I know it by his looks
and kinds words.*
* Our secret! Ellen, have you forgot—”
* Nothing. I have not forgotten any thing
I should remember. But still I say we are
safe with this honest trapper.'
‘ Trapper! is he then a trapper! Give
me your hand, father; our trades should
bring us acquainted.’ .<
‘ There is little call for handicraftfrin this
region,* returned the other, examining t||e
athletic and active form of the youth, as he
leaned carelessly and not ungracefully on
his rifle; ‘ the art of taking the creatures of
God, in traps * and nets, is one that needs
more cunning than manhood ; and yet I am
brought to practice it in my age I But it
would be quite as seemly, in one like you,
to follow a pursuit better becoming your
years and courage.’
‘ Me ! 1 never took even a slinking mink
or padling muskrat in a cage; though I ad
mit having peppered a few of the dark-skin’d
devils, when I had much better have kept
my powder in the horn and the lead in its
pouch. Not I,, old man.; nothing that
crawls the earth is for my sport.*
‘What then may you do for a living,
friend; for little profit is to he made in these
districts, if a man denies himself his lawful
right in the boasts of the field.’
‘ I deny myself nothing. If a bear crosses
my path, he is soon no bear. The deer be
gin to nose me; and as for the buffaloc, I
have killed more beef old stranger, than the
largest butcher in all Kentucky.
‘You can shoot then!’ demanded the
trapper, with a glow of latent fire glimmer
ing about his small, deep-set eyes, ‘ is your
hand true, and your look quick V
‘ The first is like a steel trap, and the last
nimbler than a buck-shot. I wish it was
hot noon, now, grand’ther; and that there
was an acre or two of your white swans or
of black feathered ducks going south, over
our heads; you or Ellen here, might
set ycr.il- heart on the finest in the flock, and
my character against a horn of powder, that
the bird would he hanging head downward?
in five minutes, and that too with a single
ball. I scorn a shot gun 1 No man can
say he ever knew me cart-;'one, a rod.’
‘ The lad has good him ! I see it plain!v
by his manner;’ said the trapper, turning to
Ellen with an open, encouraging air!
will take it on myself to say that you are not
unwise in meeting him as von do. Tell me
lad; did yon ever strike a leaping buck
atvvixt the antlers? Hector; quiet, pup;
quiet. The very name of vension quickens
the blood of the cur;—did you ever take an
animal in that fashion, on the long leap V
* You might just as well ask me, did you
ever eat ? There is no fashion, old stranger,
that a deer has not been touched by my
hand, unless it was when asleep.’
Ay, ay; you have a long and a happy—
ay, and an honest life afore you! I am old,
and I suppose I might also say, worn out
and useless;—-hut, if it was given mo to
choose my time and place again.—as such
things are not and ought not ever to be given
to the will of man,—though* if such a gift
was to be given me, l would say, twenty
and the wilderness! But, tell me ; how do
you part with the peltry ?’
* With my pelts 1 I never took a skin from
a buck nor a quill from a goose in my life
knock them over, now and then, for
meal, and sometimes to keep my finger true
to the touch ; but when hunger is satisfied
the prairie wolves get the remainder. N
no—I keep to my calling; which pays me
better, than all the fur I _ could sell on the
other side of the big river.*
The old man appeared to ponder a little
but shaking his head, he soon musingly con
tinued
* I know of but one business that can be
followed here with profit—*
He was interrupted by the youth, who
raised a small cup of tin, which dangled at
his neck, before the other’s eyes, and spring
ing its lid, the delicious odour of the finest
flavoured honey diffused itself. over the
organs of the trapper.
* A bee-hunter!’ observed the latter* with
readiness that proved he understood the
nature of the occupation, though not without
some purprise at discovering one of the
other’s spirited mien engaged in so humble
a pursuit. ‘ It pays well in the skirts of the
settlements, but I should call it a doubtful
trade in the open districts.*
You think a tree is wanting for a swarm
to settle in ! But I know differently ; and
so I have stretched put a few hundred miles
farther west, than common, to taste your
honey. And now I have bated your curi
osity, stranger, you will just move aside*
while I tell the remainder of my story to
this young woman.’
‘ It is not necessary* I'm sure it is not
necessary that he should leave us,' said El
len, with a haste that implied some little
consciousness of the singularity, if not of
the impropriety of the request. ‘You can
have nothing to say that the whole world
might not hear.'
‘ No! well, may I be stung to death by
drones if I understand the buzzings of a
woman’s mind! For my part, Ellen, I care
for nothing nor any body ; and am just as
ready to go down to the place where your
like it orAiot?
‘ You are ever so hasty and so rash, Paul
Hover, that I seldom know when I am safe
with you. IIow can you, who know the
danger o'f our] being seen together, speak of
going before iny uncle and his son V
*■ Has he done that of which he has reason
to be ashameddemanded the trapper, who
had not moved an inch from, the place he
firsl occupied.
Heaven forbid \- But thhre are reasons
why he should not be seen just now; that
could do him no harm if known, hut which
may not yet be told.—And so if you will
wait, father, near yonder willow bush; until
I have heard what Paul can possibly have
to say, I shall be sure to come and wish
you a good night, before I return to the camp.'
‘ Ay, ay; foe secret is out! you have run
the hound on the track of a wolf, and his
nose lias a bqjter memory than his master!’
said thej>ce-hupter, laughing.
‘ I have seen the creature sleep for hours*
with pack after pack, m open view. * Xwolf
might eat out of his tray without a snarl, un
less there was a scarcity ; then, indeed,
Hector would be apt to claim his own.’
‘There are pantherq down from the moun
tains ; I saw one make a leap at a sick deer
as the sun was setting. Go ; go you back
to the dog, and tell him the ‘ruth, father ; in
a minute I—’
He was interrupted by a long, loud, and
piteous howl, from the hound, which rose on
the airofthe evening like the wqilinjr of some
spirit of the place, and passed off into the
prairie, in cadences that rose and fell like
its own undulating surface. The trapoer
was impressively silent, listening intently.
Even the reckless bee-hunter, was struck
with the wailing wildness of the sounds.
The trapper drew slowly aside, as if satis-" After a short pause the former whittled the
fied with the somewhat incoherent reason
Ellen had given why he should retire.
When completely out of ear shot of the ear
nest and hurried dialogue, that instantly
commenced between the two he had left,
the old 'man again paused and patiently a-
waited the moment when he might renew his
conversation with beings in whom he felt a
growing interest, no less from the mysteri
ous character of their intercourse than from
natural sympathy in the welfare of a pair
so young, and who; as in the simplicity of
his heart he was fain to believe, were also
so deserving. He was accompanied by his
indolent but attached dog, who once more
made his bed at the feet of his master, and
soon lay slumbering as usual, with his head
nearly buried in the dense fog of the prairie
grass.
It was so unusual a spectacle to see the
human form-amid the solitude in which he
dwelt, that the trapper bent his eyes on the
dim figures of his new acquaintances with
sensations to which he had long been a
stranger. Their presence awakened recol
lections and emotions, to which his sturdy
hut honest nature had latterly paid but little
homage, and hfs thoughts began to wander
over the varied scenes of a life of hardships,
that had been strangely blended with scenes
of wild and peculiar eniovment.—The train
taken by his thoughts had already conducted
him, in imagination, far into an ideal world,
when he was once more called suddenly to
the reality of his situation, by the movements
of his faithful hound.
The dog who in submission to his years
and infirmities, had manifested such a decid
ed propensity to sleep* mow rose, and stalk
ed from out of the shadow cast by the tall
person of his master, and looked abroad into
the prairie, as though his instinct apprised
him of the presence of still another visiter.
Then, seemingly content with his examina
tion, he returned to his comfortable post,
and disposed of his weary limbs with the
deO »eration and care of'one who was no no
vice in the art of self-preservation.
* What, agaii. Hector!’ said the trapper,
in a soothing voice, which he had the cau
tion, however, to utter in an under tone ;
‘ what is’t dog ? tell his master, pup ; what
is’t ?’
Hector answered with another growl, but
was content to continue in his lair. ,/These
were evidences of intelligence and distrust,
to which one as practised as the trapper
could not turn an inattentive ear. He again
spoke to the dog, encouraging him to watch
fulness by a low, guarded whistle. The
animal, however, as if conscious of having
already discharged his duty, obstinately re
fused to raise his head from the grass
“ A hint fromr such a friend is far better
than man’s advice 1” muttered the trapper,
as he slowly moved towards the couple,who
were yet too earnestly and abstractedly en
gaged in their own discourse to notice his
approach ; “ and none but a conceited
tier would hear it and not respect it, as ’ he
ought. Children,” he added, when near en
ough to address his companions, * we are
not alone in these dreary fields ; there are
others stirriQg, and, therefore, to the shame
of our kind be it said, danger is nigh.
‘ If one of them lazy sons of skirting
Tshmael is prowling out of his camp to night,”
said the young bee-hunter, with great viva'
city, and in tones that might easily have
been excited to a menance, “ he may have
an end put to his journey, sooner either than
he or his father has calculated !*
* My life on it, they are all with the teams
hurriedly answered the girl. * I saw the
whole of them asleep myself, except the
two on watch ; and their natures have great
ly changed, if they, too, are not both dream
ing of a turkey-hunt, or a court-house fight
at this very moment.*
‘Some beast, with a strong scent, has pas
sed between the wind and the hound, father,
and it makes,him uneasy ; or, perhaps, he
too is dreaming. I had a pup of my own in
Kentucky, that would start upon a iong
chase from a deep sleep ; and all upon the
fancy of some dream. Go to him and pinch
his ear, that the beast may feel the life in him.
* Not so—not so,’ returned the trapper
shaking Iiis head as one who better under
stood the qualities, of his dog. ‘ Youth
sleeps, ay, and dreams too; but age is a
wake and watchful. The pup is never false
with his nose, and long experience tells me
to heed his warnings.’
‘ Did you ever run him upon foe trial of
carrion?’
* Why I must say that the ravenous beasts
have sometimes tempted me to let him loose
for they are as greedy as men after the veni
son, in its season—but then I knew the rea
son of the dog would tell him the object—
no—no, Hector is an animal known in thp
ways of man, and will nqver strike a false
trail when a ttue one is to be followed !'
dog to his side, and then, turning to his com
panions, he said, with the seriousness which
in his opinion, the occasion demanded—
* They who think man enjoys all the
knowledge of the creatures of God, will live
to be disappointed, if they reach, as I have
done, the age of four score years, I will not
take upon myself to say what mischief is
brewing, nor will I vouch that even the
hound himself knows so much; but evil is
nigh, and that wisdom invites us to avoid it,
I have heard from the mouth of one who
never lies. I did think the pup had become
unused to the footsteps of man. and that
your presence made him uneasy; but his
nose has »>een on a Jong scent the whole 1
evening, and what I mistook as a notice of
your homing, has been, intended for some
thing much more serious. If the advice of
an old man is, then, worth hearkening to,
children, you will quickly go different ways
to your places of shelter and safety.’
* If I quit Ellen, at such a moment,’ ex
claimed the youth, * may I never—’
‘ You’ve said enough!’ the girl interrupt
ed, by again interposing a hand that mighf,
both by its delicacy and colour, have graced
a far more elevated station in life; ‘ my time
is out ; and we must part, at all events—So
good night, Paul—father—good night.’
‘ Hist 1 .’ said the youth, seizing her arm as
she was in the very act of tripping from his
side—•■* Hist! do you hear nothing? There
are buffaloes playing their pranks at no great
distance—that sound beats the earth like a
mad herd of the scampering devils !*
His two comoanions listened, as people
in their situation would be apt to lend thoir
faculties to discover the meaning of any
doubtful noises especially when heard after
so many and such startling warnings. The
unusual sounds were now > unequivocally,
though still faintly audible. The vouth and
his female companion had made several'
hurried and vacillating conjectures concern
ing their nature, when a current oftbe night
air brought the rush of trampling foot««eps
too sensibly to their ears, to render mistake
any longer possible.
‘ l am right!’ said the bee-hunter; * a
panther is driving a herd before him ; or
may be, there is a battle among the beasts.’
* Your ears are cheats ;’ returned the r id
man, who, from the moment his own organs
had been able to catch the distant sounds,
had stood like a statue made to represent
attention.—‘ The leaps are too long for the
buftaloe, and too regular for terror. Hist;
now they_are in the bottom where the grass
is high, and the sound is deadened ! Ay.
there they go upon the hard earth ! And
now they come up the swell, dead upon us ;
they will he here afore you can find a cover!’
‘ Come, Ellen,’ cried the youth, seizing
his companion by the hand* ‘ let us make a
trial for the encampment.’
Too late! too late?’ exclaimed the
trapper, for the creatures are in open view ;
and a bloody band of accursed Siouxes they
are, by their thieving look and the random
fashion in which they ride !’
‘ Siouxes or devils, they shall find us men!’
said the bee-hunter, with a mein as fierce as
though he led a party of superior strength,
and of courage equal to h‘s own—‘ You have
a piece, old man, and will pull triger in be
half of a helpless Christian girl!’
‘ Down, down into the grass—down with
ye both,’ whispered the trapper, intimating to
them to turn aside to the tall weeds, which
grew in a denser body than common near
the place nhere they stood. ‘You’ve not
the time to fly nor the numbers to fight,
foolish boy. Down into the grass, if you
prize the young woman or value the gift of
your own life!’
His remonstrance, seconded as it was by a
prompt and energetic action, did not fail to
produce the submission to his order, which
the occasion now seemed, indeed, so impe
riously to require. The moon had fallen
behind a sheet of thin, fleecy clouds, which
skirted the horizon, leaving just, enough of
its faint and fluctuating light to render ob
jects visible, dimly revealing their forms and
proportions. The trapper,, by exercising
that species of influence over his compan
ions, which experience and decision usually
assert, in cases of emergency, had effectu
ally succeeded irr concealing them in the
grass, and, by the aid of the feeble rays of
the luminary, he was enabled to scan the dis
orderly party, which was riding like so many
madmen directly upon them.
A band of beings, who resembled demons
rather than men, sporting in their nightly
revels across the bleak plain* was in truth
approaching* at a fearful rate, and in a direc
tion to leave little hope that some one a
mong them, at least, would not pass over
the spot'where the trapper and his compan
ions lay. At intervals, the clattering of
hoofs was borne along by the night wind
quite audibly in their front, and then again,
their progress through the fog of the autum
nal grass was swift and silent; adding to
the unearthly appearance of the spectacle.
The trapper, who had called in his fibund,
and bidding him crouch at his side, now
kneeled tn the cover also; and kept a keen
and watchful eye on the route of the band,
soothing the fears of the girl, and restrain
ing the impatience.of the youth, in the same
breath.
‘ If there’s cue, there’s thirty of the mis
creants ?’ ho said in a sort of episode to his
whispered comments. “ Ay, ay, they are
edging towards the river—Peace, pup—
peace—no here they come this-a-way again
—tlie thieves don’t seem to know their own
errand ! If they were just six of us, lad,
what a beautiful amhushnient we might make
upon them- from this very spot—it wont do,
it wont do, boy : keep yourself closer, or
your head will be seen—besides, I’m not
altogether strong in the opinion it would be
lawful, as they have done us no harm.—
There they bend again to the river—no ;
here they come up the swell—now is the
moment to he as still as if the breath had
done its duty and departed the body.’
The figure of the old man sunk into the
grass while he was speaking, as though the
final separation to which he alluded, had, in
his own case, actually occurred, and, at tho
next instant a hand of wild horsemen whirl
ed by them, with the noiseless rapidity in
which it might be imagined a troop of spec
tres would pass. The dark and floating
forms had already vanished, when the trap
per ventured again to raise his head to a
level with the tops of the bending herbage,
motioning at the same time to his compan
ions, to maintain their positions and their
silence.
* They are going down the swell towards
the encampment,’ he continued in his former
guarded tones ; ‘ no they halt at the bottom
and are clustering together like deer in coun
cil. By the Lord they are turning again,
and we are not yet done with the reptiles!”
Once more he sought his friendly cover,
and at the next instant the dark troop were
to be seen riding, in a disorderly manner, on
the very summit of the little elevation. It was
now soon apparent that they had returned to
avail themselves of the height of the ground
in order to examine the dim horizon.
Rome dismounted, while others rode to
and fro, like men engaged in a local inquiry
of much interest. Happily for the hidden
party, the grass in which they were conceal
ed not only served to screen them from
the eyes of the savages, but opposed
an obstacle to preVent thoir horses, which
were no less rude and untrained than their
riders, from trampling on them, in their irre
gular and wild paces.
At length an athletic and dark-looking
Indian, who, by his air of authority, would
1 seem to be the leader, summoned his chiefs
about him to a consultation, which vras held
mounted. This body was collected on the
very margin of that mass of herbage in
which the trapper and his companions were
hid. As the young man looked up and saw
the threatening and fierce aspect of the
groupe. which was increasing at each in
stant by the accession of some countenance
and figure apparently more forbidding than
any which had preceded ; t, ho drew his rifle
by a very natural imnulse. from beneath him,
and commenced putting it in a state for in
stant service. The female, at his side, bu
ried her face in the grass, by a feeling that
was, possibly, quite as natural to her sex
and habits, leaving him to follow the impul
ses of his hot blood, but his aged and more
prudent adviser whispered sternly in his ear.
The tick of the lock is as well known to
the knaves as the blast of a trumpet to a
soldier ! Lay down the piece—lay down the
piece—should the moon touch the barrel, it
could not fail to be seen by the devils.whose
eyes are keener than the blackest snake’s !
The smallest motion, now, would be sure to
bring an arrow among us.’
The bee-hunter so far obeyed as to con
tinue immoveable and silent. But there
was still sufficient light to convince his com
panion, by the contracted brow and threa
tening eye of the young man, that a disco**
very would not bestow a bloodless victory
on the savages. Finding hie advice disre
garded, foe trapper took his measures accor
dingly, and awaited the result with a resig
nation and calmness that were characteris
tics of the individual.
In the mean time the Siouxes (for the se-
gacity of the old man was not deceived in
the character of his dangerous visiters) had
terminated their council, and were again
disnersed along the ridge of land as if they
sought some hidden object.
* The imps have heard the hound !’ whis
pers the trapper, ‘ and their ears are too truer
to be cheated imthe distance. Keep close*
lad, keep close down with your head to the
very earth, like a dog that sleeps.’ • 4
‘ Let us rather take to our feet, and trust
to manhood,* returned his impatient com
panion—
He would have proceeded, but feeling a
hand laid rude’v on his shoulder he turned
his eyes upward, and beheld the dark and
savage countenance of an Indian glooino-
full upon him. Notwithstanding the sur
prise and the disadvantage of his attitude
the youth was not disposed to become a cap
tive so easily. Quicker than the flash of
his own gun, he sprang upon lvs feet, and
was throtling his opponet with a power that
would soon have terminated the contest
when he felt the arms of the trapper thrown
around his body, confining his exertions by*
a strength very little inferior to his own.
Before he had time to reproach his comrade
for this apparent treachery, a dozen Siouxes,
were around them, and the whole party
were compelled to yield themselves as pris
oners.
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