"I wuz at Ticonderogy, an' two uv you at least wuz thar.
I didn't git to see you, but I heard uv you.

You're a great hunter, Mr.
Willet, whom the Iroquois call the Great Bear, an' ez fur Tayoga I know that he belongs to the Clan of the Bear uv the nation Onondaga, an' that he's the grandest trailer the world hez ever seed." Tayoga actually blushed under his bronze.
"The flattery of my friends should be received at a heavy discount," he said in his prim, precise English.
"It ain't no flattery," said Zebedee.

"It's the squar' an' solid truth.
I've heard tales uv you that are plum' impossible, but I know that they hev happened all the same.

Ef they wuz to tell me that you had tracked the wild goose through the air or the leapin' salmon through the water I'd believe 'em." "It would be very little exaggeration," said Robert, earnestly.

"Be quiet, Tayoga! If we want to sing your praises we'll sing 'em and you can't help it." The five recrossed the river together, and went to Wolfe's camp below the town facing the Montmorency, Charteris going back into camp with the Royal Americans to whom he belonged, and the others going as free lances with the New England rangers.