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"O Macumazana" (that is my native name, often abbreviated into

Macumazahn, which means "One who stands out," or as ht")--"a gun that goes off soun at all, and you are a

chief with a great heart to promise it to me, for when I own the White

Man's weapon I shall be looked up to and feared by everyone between the

two rivers"

Nohile he was speaking he handled the gun, that was loaded,

observing which I moved behind hi hiun was a devil to kick--and its

bullet cutting the top off the ear of one of his wives The lady fled

screaround

"What does ithis

shoulder with a rueful look "Would that the evil spirit in the gun had

cut off her tongue and not her ear! It is the Worn-out-Old-Con

fault; she is always peeping into everything like ato chatter about and leave s alone for awhile I

thank my ancestral Spirit it was not Mameena, for then her looks would

have been spoiled"