You have even been so unreasonable that whenever a poor red man has secured a few paleface scalps as trophies to hang in his wigwam you have taken your trusty rifles and gone forth with great fury and shot the poor Indian full of hard bullets.

You have done heap many things that you would not have done if you had not done so.

But now, poor, shivering dog of a paleface, the injured red man has arisen at last in his might.

If we are to perish, we are to perish; but before we perish, we will enjoy the gentle pleasure of roasting a few white men at the stake.

Ugh! We have held a council of war, we have excavated the hatchet, we have smashed the pipe of peace to flinders, or something of the sort, and have struck out upon the war trail." "You act as if you had struck out," growled one of the captives.
"That's because he has had a few balls," gurgled Browning.