“As I saw no signals, it is not to be supposed that I was to be scared by them.”
“Kinder short-sighted, p’r’aps. When a man gits to lookin’ at dollars right hard, ’pears like he cain’t see nothin’ else. Ye don’t say whether ye’re glad to see me, or not.”
“I am truly sorry to see you here as a prisoner, although your manner is not calculated to excite sympathy.”
“Old Blaze ain’t much of a calkilation’ man, I’m afeard.”
“I heard that a prisoner had been taken, but supposed it to be an Indian. You are a white man, I believe.”
“Did ye raally hear that thar rumpus? I’m glad to know that ye ain’t quite so hard o’ hearin’ as mought hev been expected. I do allow that I’m a white man, stranger—white all over. Are you fixed up that way?”
“It is a strange question to ask. You see that I am a white man.”
“Are ye on good tarms with these hyar red-skins?”
“It is my business to be so. I am a trader, and have been among them several months.”