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486 The Bcxjk of Woodcraft But now there arose a big, square-jawed man, who had smoked in silence. He made a very short speech. It was full of plain, good sense. He told them what he knew about the United States Army — how superior it was to all the Indian tribes put together, how hopeless it was to fight it — and urged them to give up the fooHsh notion of the war- path. His speech would not compare with that of the other. He had neither the fire nor the words — he had not even the popular sympathy, and yet he quelled the dis- turbance in his few sentences, and as I looked there dawned on me the reason for his power. While the gifted orator of the big words had in his hair a single untuf ted eagle feather, the other, the man with the square jaw, had eagle feathers all around his head and trailing down his back and two feet DETAILS or THE WARBONNET The plain white Goose or Turkey feather. The same, with tip dyed black. The same, showing ruff of white down lashed on with wax end. The same, showing leather loop lashed on for the holding lace. The same, viewed edge on. The same, with a red flannel cover sewn and lashed on the quill. This is a "coup feather." The same, with a tuft of red horsehair lashed on the top to mark a "grand coup" and (a) a thread through the middle of the rib to hold the feather in proper place. Thia feather is marked with the symbol of a grand coup in target shooting.