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 "Don't your father want you to go abroad when he is away?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Something might happen, without a chief to protect us. There are animals in the forest that nuight kill women and children."

"Gh!" said Nattie, "that would be dreadful. But don't any white folks live near here?"

"No," answered Black-bird, quickly; "not any."

"Yes, there is, Black-bird," said Fox Heart, starting up from the bowl of broth which he was eating by the fire; "ever so many at Sibley's Corner. They are building houses there, and are going to cut the woods down, one of these days."

"Where did you hear so many lies as that?" asked Black-bird.

"My pappy knew it before he went off, and said that perhaps we should have to move to new hunting grounds before many moons."