Two arrows : a story of red and white . e was hope in that thought; stillthere is a double difficulty before a man who sets out tosteal horses without having one of his own to ride. Two Arrows will steal horses some day, she said toHa-ha-pah-no, confidently. Big chief: steal a heap. No boy any more. BigTongue find a horse; say he stole him. No brave. Ponycome somehow. Nobody else in that band could have guessed how themind of Long Bear himself was busy with plans concern-ing that very matter. He thought of all the horses of allthe tribes at any kind of difference with the Nez Perces,and he tho
Two arrows : a story of red and white . e was hope in that thought; stillthere is a double difficulty before a man who sets out tosteal horses without having one of his own to ride. Two Arrows will steal horses some day, she said toHa-ha-pah-no, confidently. Big chief: steal a heap. No boy any more. BigTongue find a horse; say he stole him. No brave. Ponycome somehow. Nobody else in that band could have guessed how themind of Long Bear himself was busy with plans concern-ing that very matter. He thought of all the horses of allthe tribes at any kind of difference with the Nez Perces,and he thought of the white traders and their rich drovesof quadrupeds of all sorts. He had won his rank fairly,as his son was likely to do after him, and he had a greatdeal of courage and ambition ; just at present, however,he was a dismounted horse-thief, and he felt the disgraceof it even more than the inconvenience. It was a sadthing to be afoot at his time of life, and he brooded overit like some great white merchant who has suddenly failed. LOSSTG BEAR. Siles Pocket. 75 in business. He feared that it would take some time toset up that band again, without any four-footed capital tobegin on. It was pleasant to find the trail so good, at all events,and before dark they made out to reach the very spotwhere Two Arrows had camped. They had been morethan twice as long in getting there, but the first bravewho pushed on into the open space found the dead em-bers of a fire and began to study them. Not far behindhim were Na-tee-kah and Ha-ha-pah-no, and it was hard tosay which of them was the first to point at the black coalsand the ashes, and exclaim, Two Arrows I The word was echoed from lip to lip until it came toLong Bear and his wife. For a wonder he was walkingbeside her, which was as near as he could come to carry-ing her load for her. She was only the step-mother ofNa-tee-kah and her brother, and had a pappoose of her ownas part of her burden, but she took her full share of thefamily
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