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"you my father - me give my father my heart" -
at the same time offering his dark hand and firmly
grasping mine as if his had been cased in mail.

"Me tell my father every thing, how angry
man come put me prison." - and then with the
greatest volubility and with an astonishing rapidity
of speech without the least hesitation or manvaise
houte he went on to state in a very energetic
manner the circumstance that had produced his
highly excited feelings; Every now and then applying
his pipe to his mouth, which he puffed
and whiffed in a hasty manner as he stated the
course of complaint in the following language.

"Well you know you my father - you know
Settler man come, - Him much angry man - Him
ugh, man (a yankee expression signifying very bad temper).
Him say me go prison? - Me say why fore me go
prison ugh? - Him say me cut him tree, me burn
him bush" - "me say me burn him little bush for big
kettle fire for make poor squaw eat every thing - for
make little squaw eat - Muskrat eat - fish eat -
wild duck eat - for fire every thing eat you know ugh

"Him say dam me squaw - dam me little
squaw - dam muskrat - dam fish - dam wild duck
Him say dam poor Indian Indigenous man - "Me say dam settler
man" - "Him say plenty ugly words - me say plenty
ugly words - Him say him go put me prison you
know - ugh?"

I replied "But me your father you
know - I no let Settlement man put poor Indian in [prison]