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Pale-Face ways. He said he took a drink of
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himself occasionally, on cold or wet days, and rather liked it; but that, as a rule, drunkenness was on the decrease among the Delawares, and he was glad of it. He had a wife and eight children, and said they allowed
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He said he was born far away toward the rising sun, on a river among the mountains; and when I showed him a map, he immediately pointed out the head-waters of the Delaware. When I told him I had just come from there, and that my
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stood upon its banks, he seemed greatly interested. The first steamboat he ever saw, was many years before at St. Louis, and he thought it
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Very good, because
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It went itself! Puff! Puff! No paddle! His first locomotive, was quite recently at Leavenworth, and he thought it
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Much good! Went whiz! Beat buffalo or pony! Of the telegraph, he said,
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I no understand; but very much good! Heap swift! Like arrow or bullet between wide places; only heap better!
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and couldn't imagine how any lesser being could interfere with Him.
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Perhaps, Evil Manitou somewhere; but Fall-Leaf know only Good Manitou. He admitted some of his people believed in spirits; but he himself had never seen any, and was skeptical on the whole subject. Some medicine-men, he said, claimed to have seen them, and to be able to control them; but he thought the whole thing