Crossword-Solution: VAIS 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

And so his lip quivered as he sang:-- “Petit Rocher de la Haute Montagne, Je vien finir ici cette campagne! Ah! doux échos, entendez mes soupirs; En languissant je vais bientôt mouir!” We had need of gayety after that, and so Bill Cowan sang “Billy of the Wild Wood,” and Terence McCann wailed an Irish jig, stamping the water out of the spongy ground amidst storms of mirth.

And he gazed on the tattooed limbs, and, behold, he knew the man: Hoka, a chief of the Vais, the truculent foe of his clan: Hoka a moment since that stepped in the loop of the rope, Filled with the lust of war, and alive with courage and hope.

See them, the drooping of hams! behold me the blinking crew: Fifty spears they cast, and one of fifty true! And you, O priest, the foreteller, foretell for yourself if you can, Foretell the hour of the day when the Vais shall burst on your clan! By the head of the tapu cleft, with death and fire in their hand, Thick and silent like ants, the warriors swarm in the land.” And they tell that when next the sun had climbed to the noonday skies, It shone on the smoke of feasting in the country of the Vais.

The song, called Petition d'un voleur a un roi son voisin, has this final stanza: "Sire, oserais-je reclamer? Mais ecoutez-moi sans colere: Le voeu que je vais exprimer Pourrait bien, ma foi, vous deplaire.

Montcalm, on first hearing of him, had made haste: "OUI, JE LES VOIS OU ILS NE DOIVENT PAS ETRE; JE VAIS LES E'CRASER (to smash them)!" said he, by way of keeping his people in heart.