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sport upon him; but although the little putty balls fell thick and fast around him, he | 33 | ||
sport upon him; but although the little putty balls fell thick and fast around him, he evinced no consciousness that he observed them. | |||
At length one more true to its aim than the rest, struck his knee and, glancing upward, bounded back from his breast to the pavement. The Indian stopped his mastication, regarded the flattened putty where it lay for a moment, touched the spot on his breast from which it had rebounded with the point of his knife, and then the place on his knee where it first struck, then musing for a moment, he slowly raised his head until his eyes came on a line with the window where my friend had been standing, (he had concealed himself at the moment the Indian had began to raise his head), and fixed his gaze upon it, and the moment my friend again showed himself, shook his knife at him in a way that said as plain as words, "I've caught you." and then continued his meal. | |||
During the summer of this year (1834) the Asiatic Cholera, after over-running all Asia, Europe and America, broke out for the second time in Detroit and threw the inhabitants into the greatest consternation, and by its ravages and the flight of a large portion of the people the city was nearly depopulated. Some idea of it's fatality may be formed from the fact that on the 24th of August I counted twenty- | |||
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33 sport upon him; but although the little putty balls fell thick and fast around him, he evinced no consciousness that he observed them.
At length one more true to its aim than the rest, struck his knee and, glancing upward, bounded back from his breast to the pavement. The Indian stopped his mastication, regarded the flattened putty where it lay for a moment, touched the spot on his breast from which it had rebounded with the point of his knife, and then the place on his knee where it first struck, then musing for a moment, he slowly raised his head until his eyes came on a line with the window where my friend had been standing, (he had concealed himself at the moment the Indian had began to raise his head), and fixed his gaze upon it, and the moment my friend again showed himself, shook his knife at him in a way that said as plain as words, "I've caught you." and then continued his meal. During the summer of this year (1834) the Asiatic Cholera, after over-running all Asia, Europe and America, broke out for the second time in Detroit and threw the inhabitants into the greatest consternation, and by its ravages and the flight of a large portion of the people the city was nearly depopulated. Some idea of it's fatality may be formed from the fact that on the 24th of August I counted twenty-