“Besides, I like your fanciful Indian names—what’s mine, by the way, apart from white-eye?”
“Don’t you know? Why, ever since you rode with your lance at the pegs, everyone calls you by a fine name: White-Rider-Goes-So-Fast-He-Destroys-the-Wind-with-His-Speed.”
It sounded not bad, if a bit of a mouthful. “They can’t call me all that every time,” says I.
“Of course not, foolish one—they shorten it. He-Who-Breaks-the-Wind, or just Wind Breaker.”
Flashman and the Redskins, p.176, Pan Books edition, 1983.
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