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the habits and feelings of the boy into the ambition 

 of the hunter and warrior. He had lately killed 

 his first deer, and this had excited his aspirations 

 for distinction. Since that time he had been con 

 tinually in search for game, and no young hunter 

 in the village had been so active or so fortunate 

 as he. All this success had produced a marked 

 change in his character. As I first remembered 

 him, he always shunned the society of the young 

 squaws, and was extremely bashful and sheepish 

 in their presence ; but now, in the confidence of 

 his new reputation, he began to assume the airs 

 and arts of a man of gallantry. He wore his red 

 blanket dashingly over his left shoulder, painted 

 his cheeks every day with vermilion, and hung pen 

 dants of shells in his ears. If I observed aright, 

 he met with very good success in his new pursuits ; 

 still the Hail-Storm had much to accomplish before 

 he attained the full standing of a warrior. Gal 

 lantly as he began to bear himself before the wo 

 men and girls, he was still timid and abashed in 

 the presence of the chiefs and old men ; for he had 

 never yet killed a man, or stricken the dead body 

 of an enemy in battle. I have no doubt that the 

 handsome smooth-faced boy burned with desire to 

 flesh his maiden scalping knife, and I would not 

 have encamped alone with him without watching 



