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" The white people think we have no brains in our heads ; that they are big, and we a little handful ; but remember, when you hunt for a rattlesnake you cannot find it, and perhaps it will bite you before you see it. "
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846: A Series of Annotated Reprints of Some of ... - Page 205
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The North American Review, Volume 49

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1839 - 572 pages
...heads ; that they are big, and we a little handful ; but remember, when you hunt for a rattlesnake you cannot find it, and perhaps it will bite you before you see it." When the war of Pontiac came, this saying might have been justly remembered. At length, having...
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The North American Review, Volume 49

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1839 - 536 pages
...heads ; that they are big, and we a little handful ; but remember, when you hunt for a rattlesnake you cannot find it, and perhaps it will bite you before you see it." When the war of Pontiac came, this saying might have been justly remembered. At length, having...
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Annals of the West: Embracing a Concise Account of Principal Events which ...

James Handasyd Perkins - Indians of North America - 1846 - 642 pages
...heads ; that they are big, and we a little handful ; but remember, when you hunt for a rattlesnake you cannot find it, and perhaps it will bite you before you see it." When the war of Pontiac came, this saying might have been justly remembered. At length, having...
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Early History of Western Pennsylvania: And of the West, and of Western ...

Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1846 - 788 pages
...always find it, it is so little it hides itself under the bushes : and when you hunt for a rattlesnake, you cannot find it ; and perhaps it will bite you before you see it. However, since you are so great and big, and we so little, do you use your greatness and strength...
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Early History of Western Pennsylvania, and of the West, and of Western ...

Israel Daniel Rupp - Indians of North America - 1848 - 782 pages
...always find it, it is so little it hides itself under the bushes : and when you hunt for a rattlesnake, you cannot find it ; and perhaps it will bite you before you see it. However, since you are so great and big, and we so little, do you use your greatness and strength...
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The Memoir and Writings of James Handasyd Perkins, Volume 2

James Handasyd Perkins - Ohio - 1851 - 524 pages
...heads ; that they are big, and we a little handful ; but remember, when you hunt for a rattlesnake you cannot find it, and perhaps it will bite you before you see it." When the war of Pontiac came, this saying might have been justly remembered. At length, having...
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White, red, black, sketches of American society in the United ..., Volume 1

Ferencz Aurelius Pulszky - 1853 - 374 pages
...heads ; that they are big, and we a little handful ; but remember, when you hunt for a, rattlesnake, you cannot find it, and perhaps it will bite you before you see it." In fact, the English now sustained the most dangerous combined attack which ever came upon...
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History of the State of Ohio ...: First Period, 1650-1787

James Wickes Taylor - Ohio - 1854 - 562 pages
...our head; that they are big, and we a little handful; but remember, when you hunt for a rattlesnake you cannot find it, and perhaps it will bite you before you see it." The humble Moravian played no unimportant part in restoring to His British Majesty the key...
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The History of Ohio: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

William Henry Carpenter, Timothy Shay Arthur - Ohio - 1854 - 334 pages
...heads : that they are many and we a little handful ; but remember, when you hunt for a rattlesnake you cannot find it ; and perhaps it will bite you before you see it." The covert menace implied in these words was regarded at the time as a mere ebullition of...
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History of the State of Ohio

James Wickes Taylor - Indians of North America - 1854 - 604 pages
...our head ; that they are big, and we a little handful ; but remember, when you hunt for a rattlesnake you cannot find it, and perhaps it will bite you before you see it." The humble Moravian played no unimportant part in restoring to His British Majesty the key...
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