Define: parfleche, panniers, maize, parliament, shrews.
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4. What augury in orniscopic words
5. Did yon swart sibyls on the morning scrawl?
A rhetorical question to indicate the dread interest Hugh felt in the question “Sioux or Ree?”
Note the fancy that words are written on the sky.
13. In their van
14. Aloof and lonely rode a gnarled old man etc.
“Gnarled” like a tree. A most vivid picture of Elk Tongue, a famous Ree chief.
16. Beneath his heavy years, yet haughtily