Mahtawa wishes to have the medicine gun.

Although we said, No, we could not part with it, he tried to take it by force.

Are we to go back to the great chief of the Pale-faces and say that the Pawnees are thieves?
Are the Pale-faces henceforth to tell their children when they steal, 'That is bad; that is like the Pawnee ?' No; this must not be.

The rifle shall be restored, and we will forget this disagreement.

Is it not so ?" There was an evident disposition on the part of many of the Indians, with whom Mahtawa was no favourite, to applaud this speech; but the wily chief sprang forward, and, with flashing eyes, sought to turn the tables.
"The Pale-face speaks with soft words, but his heart is false.