human
Well, it seems that we may all lift up our hearts. The English are done for, and next season there is to be a big stamping-out of the Iroquois.
gpt
Who told you that, Jo Lagasse?
human
Everyone is saying it. Pierre Courteau has even some tale that two thousand of them were slaughtered after the battle yonder-- Onnontagues and Agniers for the most part. At this rate you idlers will soon be using your bayonets to turn the corn with the rest of us.
gpt
Yes; that's right--call us idlers! And the Iroquois known to be within a dozen miles! You would sing to another tune, my friend, if we idlers offered to march off and leave you just now.
human
No, no, corporal; I was jesting only. To think of me undervaluing the military! Why often and often, as a single man with no ties, I have fancied myself enlisting. But now it will be too late.
gpt
If M. de Montcalm has really swallowed the English, answered the other drily,
human
But these English, now--I have always had a curiosity to see them. Is it true, corporal, that they have faces like devils, and that he who has the misfortune to be killed by one will assuredly rise the third day? The priests say so.
gpt
Much would depend, he answered cautiously,