"I believe you're torturing me on purpose.

I'm hungry now." "But that is nothing to what Dagaeoga will be tonight, after he has gone many hours without food.

Then he will think of the juicy venison, and of the tender steak of the young bear, and of the fine fish from the mountain streams, and he will remember how he has enjoyed them in the past, but it will be only a memory.

The fish that he craves will be swimming in the clear waters, and the deer and the bear will be far away, safe from his bullet." "I didn't know you had so much malice in your composition, Tayoga, but there's one consolation; if I suffer you suffer also." The Onondaga laughed.
"It will give Dagaeoga a chance to test himself," he said.

"We know already that he is brave in battle and skillful on the trail, and now we will see how he can sit for days and nights without anything to eat, and not complain.