I've done something
at this business before now, and Deerslayer here knows that I am
one that can hide a craft in such a way that I can't find it myself."
"Very true, Hurry," put in the person to whom the appeal had been
made, "but you overlook the sarcumstance that if you couldn't
see the trail of the man who did the job, I could. I'm of Master
Hutter's mind, that it's far wiser to mistrust a savage's ingenuity,
than to build any great expectations on his want of eye-sight.
If these two canoes can be got off to the castle, therefore, the
sooner it's done the better."
"Will you be of the party that's to do it?" demanded Hutter, in a
way to show that the proposal both surprised and pleased him.
"Sartain. I'm ready to enlist in any enterprise that's not ag'in
a white man's lawful gifts. Natur' orders us to defend our lives,
and the lives of others, too, when there's occasion and opportunity.
I'll follow you, Floating Tom, into the Mingo camp, on such an
arr'nd, and will strive to do my duty, should we come to blows;
though, never having been tried in battle, I don't like to promise
more than I may be able to perform. We all know our wishes, but
none know their might till put to the proof.
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