id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt 05-prairie_019-1804 James Fenimore Cooper 05-prairie_019-1804 1804 .txt text/plain 5037 167 66 And warriors are going up the Long-river, to see that they have not been cheated, in what they have bought? Ay, that is partly true, too, I fear; and it will not be long before an accursed band of choppers and loggers will be following on their heels, to humble the wilderness which lies so broad and rich on the western banks of the Mississippi, and then the land will be a peopled desert, from the shores of the main sea to the foot of the Rocky Mountains; fill'd with all the abominations and craft of man, and stript of the comforts and loveliness it received from the hands of the Lord! And where were the chiefs of the Pawnee-Loups, when this bargain was made? suddenly demanded the youthful warrior, a look of startling fierceness gleaming, at the same instant, athwart his dark visage. all whom he sees here have pale skins, but the Pawnee warriors are red; does he believe that man changes with the season, and that the son is not like his father? The young warrior regarded his interrogator for a moment with a steady and deliberating eye; then raising his finger upward, he answered with dignity The Wahcondah pours the rain from his clouds; when he speaks, he shakes the lulls; and the fire, which scorches the trees, is the anger of his eye; but he fashioned his children with care and thought. cache/05-prairie_019-1804.txt txt/05-prairie_019-1804.txt