After putting him in the coffin his > [squaws] who witnessed the scene, uttered the most piteous cries, cutting > their ankles until the blood ran in streams. An old Indian woman...standing > between the house and the grave, lifted her arms to heaven and shrieked her > maledictions upon the heads of the murderers. Col. Sarpy, Stephen Decatur, > Mrs. Sloan, and an Otoe half-breed, and others stood over the grave when his > body was lowered.
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Wedgbury untied Billy and Tiger, casting a most piteous look upon the wounded dogs around him. Both went to work. Wallace seized Billy by the loins, and when shaking him, Tiger having run away, Wedgbury cried out, 'There, you see how you've gammoned me to have the best dog in England killed.' Billy, however, escaped with his life; he was dragged through the railing, after having received a mark in the loins, which (if he recovers at all) will probably render him unfit for any future contest.
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On > the day of the payment, having received her portion, which she carefully hid > in the corner of her blanket, she came crawling along and seated herself on > the door step, to count her treasure.... In spite of their vexatious tricks, > she seemed very fond of them, and never failed to beg something of her > Father, that she might bestow upon them. She crept into the parlor one > morning, then straightening herself up, and supporting herself by the frame > of the door, she cried in a most piteous tone,—"Shaw-nee-aw-kee Wau-tshob- > ee-rah Thsoonsh-koo-nee-noh!" [Žuniya-ąké ho(kik)čąbira čųšgunįno] (Silver- > man I have no looking glass.) My husband smiling and taking up the same > little tone, cried, in return,— "Do you wish to look at yourself mother?" > The idea seemed to her so irresistibly comic that she laughed until she was > fairly obliged to seat herself upon the floor and give way to her enjoyment.
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" At the conclusion of the "Tale of Sir Tristram" (Caxton's VIII–XII): "Here endeth the second book of Sir Tristram de Lyones, which was drawn out of the French by Sir Thomas Malleorre, knight, as Jesu be his help." Finally, at the conclusion of the whole book: "The Most Piteous Tale of the Morte Arthure Sanz Gwerdon par le shyvalere Sir Thomas Malleorre, knight, Jesu aide ly pur votre bon mercy." However, all these are replaced by Caxton with a final colophon reading: "I pray you all gentlemen and gentlewomen that readeth this book of Arthur and his knights, from the beginning to the ending, pray for me while I am alive, that God send me good deliverance and when I am dead, I pray you all pray for my soul. For this book was ended the ninth year of the reign of King Edward the Fourth by Sir Thomas Maleore, knight, as Jesu help him for his great might, as he is the servant of Jesu both day and night.
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