We kill only to eat." "Well, I've learned your way.

You can't say, Tayoga, that I'm not, in spirit and soul at least, half an Iroquois, and spirit and soul mean more than body and manners or the tint of the skin." "Dagaeoga has learned much.

But then he has had the advantage of associating with one who could teach him much." "Tayoga, if it were not for that odd little chord in your voice, I'd think you were conceited.

But though you jest, it is true I've had a splendid chance to discover that the nations of the Hodenosaunee know some things better than we do, and do some things better than we do.
I've found that the wisdom of the world isn't crystallized in any one race.

How about the rabbits, Tayoga?
Do they still eat and play, as if nobody anywhere near them was thinking of wounds and death ?" "The rabbits neither see nor hear anything strange, and the strange would be to them the dangerous.