“But you come on a feller so suddent like,—didn’t give me time to collect my presence of mind.”
“That is about the style that a redskin would have approached you, except that instead of his hand, he would have brought down his tomahawk on your head.”
“You don’t say so! I s’pose he would, but then I wouldn’t ’ve let him come in that style. I’d ’ve fout him mighty hard.”
“Didn’t you tell me, you would detect the approach of an Indian, no matter how stealthy he came up to you?”
“Well, so I would.”
“Why didn’t you hear me?”
“You didn’t come up like an Indian, as you say yourself.”
“I know that; I made twice as much noise.”
“That is just the reason I didn’t notice you; if you had come up natural like,—that is as one of your genouine redmen always do, I’d ’ve heard you, you may be sure.”
“And what would have been the consequence?”