noon
All lay down soon after and slept until morning . The snow ceased falling , and only a thin coating lay on the ground at daylight . An unusual moderation in the temperature carried this away before nightfall , and the weather became almost spring-like , or rather resembled the lingering days of Indian summer , which are the expiring gasp of the mild season , soon to be followed by the biting rigors of winter . Before noon it was known throughout the Blackfoot village that the remarkable young Shawanoe had arrived . The excitement was greater than that caused by the coming of Victor and George Shelton , and for a time Deerfoot was seriously annoyed , but he strove to bear it with the sensible philosophy of his nature . Those who saw him as he moved here and there with the boys , or Mul-tal-la , or Spink and Jiggers , had to admit the truth of the assertion heard many times ; he was the most prepossessing young warrior upon whom any of them had ever looked . Neither among the Blackfeet nor any of their neighboring tribes had so comely a youth been seen .