"Yaw, but I dinks dot we should go across last, night."

"What would we have gained by that?"

"Then we wouldn't have to go ober agin dis mornings."

"True, but there is no haste called for; if it was not that I am so
anxious to see mother, I would as lief spend a week on the road."

"Dot wouldn't do for me, for mine fader would be looking for me wid
two big gads to him--"

"Helloa! Here comes Deerfoot. What can be the matter? He is
excited over something."

Such was the fact, indeed, for the sagacious Shawanoe had made an
annoying if not alarming discovery.




CHAPTER VII

A SURPRISED FISHERMAN


It may be said that Deerfoot the Shawanoe never lost his senses
excepting when slumber stole them away. Young as he was, he had
been through some of the most terrific encounters the mind can