53/81 You have heard the story over and over, but to-day is the time to impress on you that an exhibition like THIS is the veriest child's play compared with what I have seen your father do repeatedly!" "But it was you, the chief said was brave!" Mother laughed. There's only one way to deal with an Indian. I had lived among them all my life, and I knew what must be done." "I think both of you were brave," I said, "you, the bravest!" "Quite the contrary," laughed mother. "I shall have to confess that what I did happened so quickly I'd no time to think. |