Then, for the first time during the
whole ride, he spoke.
"All time, yo' sleepum," he said, in the sonorous, oracular tone
which he usually employed when a subject held his serious
thought. "Peaceful Hart, him all same sleepum. All same sleepum
'longside snake. No seeum snake, no thinkum mebbyso catchum
bite." He glanced down at his own snake-bitten foot. "Snake
bite, make all time much hurt." His eyes turned, and dwelt
sharply upon the face of Good Indian.
"Yo' all time thinkum Squaw-with-sun-hair. Me tell yo' for
watchum, yo' no think for watchum. Baumberga, him all same
snake. Yo' think him all time catchum fish. HUH! Yo' heap big
fool, yo' thinkum cat. Rattlesnake, mebbyso sleepum in sun one
time. Yo' no thinkum bueno, yo' seeum sleep in sun. Yo' heap
sabe him all time kay bueno jus' same. Yo' heap sabe yo' come
close, him biteum. Mebbyso biteum hard, for killum yo' all
time." He paused, then drove home his point like the true
orator. "Baumberga catchum fish.
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