Chapter 21: XIX

XIX The Story of Green-blanket Feet And he wooed her with caresses, Wooed her with his smile of sunshine, With his flattering words he wooed her, With his sighing and his singing. Hiawatha Cogewea soon returned to the teepee in dry habiliments and with a show of her old gaiety. Seating herself on the vacant buffalo robe, she spoke: “Well! my little Stemteemä, what is it to be—praises or a scolding? The Shoyahpee did not know that turning the Swa-lah-kin …