1 The winds cooled them in summer; in winter, skins kept them warm.
2 Many parching summers are come and gone," continued the sage, "since I drank of the water of my own rivers.
3 As both parties secreted themselves, the woods were again as still and quiet as a mild summer morning and deep solitude could render them.
4 We said the country should be ours from the place where the water runs up no longer on this stream, to a river twenty sun's journey toward the summer.
5 They compared her to flakes of snow; as pure, as white, as brilliant, and as liable to melt in the fierce heats of summer, or congeal in the frosts of winter.
6 The trees of many acres had been felled, and the glow of a mild summer's evening had fallen on the clearing, in beautiful contrast to the gray light of the forest.
7 A motion of a finger was the intimation he gave the supposed physician to follow; and passing through the clouds of smoke, Duncad was glad, on more accounts than one, to be able at last to breathe the pure air of a cool and refreshing summer evening.
8 The rude path, which originally formed their line of communication, had been widened for the passage of wagons; so that the distance which had been traveled by the son of the forest in two hours, might easily be effected by a detachment of troops, with their necessary baggage, between the rising and setting of a summer sun.