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to receive, but which is never eo flat-
tering or so agreeable as when it
comes from the young to those of
their own age from the manly to the
gentle. Like most of those who pass
their time ct(lnded from the society
0f the sorter sex, yonna Western was.
earnest, sincere. and kind in his at-
te_ntluns, which, though they '(canted
a conventional rt bt(ement which per-
haps. Mabel never missed, had those
winning qua lilies that prove ve13' „nf-
11(heut ue eubstitutes. Leat ling these
two unsophisticated ymmg people to
((•conte acquaint( 11 through their
feelings, rather than their expressed
thoughts, w0 will turn to the group
in which the uncle had already be-
come a principal 1(1.11)1.
'Eben party had taken their places
around a platter at venison steaks,
wliich'served for the common use,
and the discourse naturally partook
of the characters of the differentin-
dividuals which composed it, The
Indians were silent and industrious.
the appetite of the aboriginal Ameri-
can for venison being seemingly 111.
appeasable, while the two white men
were communicative, each of the lat-
ter beiug garrulous and opinionated
in his way. But, as the dialogue will
put the reader in possession of (01"
tain facts that may render the sue -
ceding narrative more clear, it will
be well to record it,
"There must be satisfaction in this
life of yours, 110 doubt, Mr. Path-.
Ruder," continued Cap, when the hun-
ger of the travellers was so far ap-
peased that they began to pick and
choose among the savoury morsels;
"it. has some of the chan0es and
11(011 that we seamen histo; and if ours
is all water, yours is all land,"
"Nay, we hove water too, in our
journeyings and marches," returned
his white companion; "we border -
men handle the paddle and time spear
almost as much as the rine and tate
hunting -knife."
"Ay; but do you handle the brace
alul the bow -line, the wheel and the
lead -line, the reef -point and the top -
rope The paddle is a good thing,
out of doubt, in a canoe; but of what
use is it in the ship?"
"Nay, I respect all men in then'
callings, and I can believe tthe things
you mention have their uses. One
who nas• lived, like myself, in com-
pany with many tribes, understands
differences in usages. The paint o1 t0
Mingo is not the paint of a Delaware;
"Then you are the friend my father other in an apparently friendly man -
promised to send to meet us?" tier.
"if you are Sergeant Dunhams ' "I like to see this," continued Path -
daughter, the great Prophet of the tinder; "the salutes of two red -skins
Delaware's never uttered more
truth."
"I am Mabel; and yonder, hid by
the trees, are my uncle, whose name
is Cap, and a Tuscarora called
Arrowhead. We did not hope to meet
You until we had nearly reached the
shores of the lake."
"I wish a juster-minded Iudian had
been your guide," said Pathfinder;
"for I ani no lover of the Tuscaroras,
who have travelled too far from the
graves of their fathers always too re-
member the Great Spirit; and Ar-
rowhead is an ambitious chief. Is
the Dew -of -June with him?"
"His wife accompanies us, and a
humble and mild creature she is,"
"Ay. and true -hearted; which is
more than any who know him will
say of Arrowhead, Well, we must
take the fare that Providence be-
stows, while we follow the trail of
life. I suppose worse guides might
have been found than the Tuscarora;
though he has too much Mingo
blood for one who consorts altogeth-
er with the Delawares."
"It is. then, perhaps, fortunate we
have met." said Mabel.
'It is not unfortunate, at any rate;
for 1 promised the Sergeant I would
see his child safe to the garrison,
though I died for it, We -expected to
meet you before you reached the
Falls, where we have left our own
In the woods, Master Cap, are like
tate hailing of friendly vessels on the
ocean. But speaking of water, it re-
minds me of my young friend, Jasper
'Western here, who can claim to
know something of these matters,
seeing that he has passed his days
un Ontario."
"I am glad to see you, friend,"
said Cap, giving the young fresh-
water Ballo' a _cordial grip; "thought
you must have something still to
learn, considering the school to
which you have been sent. This is
my niece Mabel; 1 call her Magnet,
for a reason she never dreams of,
though you may possibly have educa-
tion enough to guess at it, leaving
some pretensi0us to understand the
compass, I suppose,"
"The reason is easily comprehend-
ed," said the young man, involuntar-
ily fastening his keel dark eye, at
the same time, on the suffused face
of the girl; "and I feel sure that the
sailor who steers by your Magnet will
never make a bad land -fall."
"Hat you do snake use of the
same terms, I find, and that with
propriety; though, on the whole, I
fear you have seen more green than
blue water'."
"1t is not surprising that we
should get some of 111e phrases
which erelong to the land; for we are
cannel while we thought it might do seldom out of sight of it twenty -foul'
no harm to eo me up a few miles, in hour': at a time."
order to be of service 1f wanted. It "Mare's the pity, boy, more'e the
Is sooty we did. for 1 dan111 if Arrotw Pity! A very little land ought to go a
head he leo' ratan to shoot the ('01" great way with a seafaring num.
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Now. if the truth were known, alas -
Aims, ,eine my uncle and the Tus- I ter Western, I suppose there is
1),r t anti enr puns can now more of less land all round your
edn.s 1Iabel ,one laded, top.and lake.'.
,vr'rowhead, who saw that the eater. 'Aad, nude, is there nm more or
• n•'e was amicable. drew nigh, ;and 0 I less land arnttlid the ocean?" tn' said
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NV(Iris ler let them know 4 111(01net, quickly; for she dreaded if
as ninth as lite girl herself had learn -1 premature display of the old sea -
ed from the stranger.\s soon us man's p('euliu' dogmatism, not to
this w'1(11 done. the party proceeded
towards the two who atilt remained
near the fire.
CHAPTER II.
The Mohican continued to eat,
though the second white mut rose,
and courteously took off his eap to
:label Dunham. He was young,
healthful. and manly in appearance;
and be wore a 11001414 which. 401111e 14
wa71 1.-s. ,'114i1113' - prntessioual ,.elan
titter of the uncle, also denoted one
accustomed to the water. In that
age, real seamen were a class entire -
;3 apart icon= 111e rest (1 mankiull,
their ideas, ,,'dinars language, and
attire being as strongly indleatit''- of
their ,'allt.tg as the opinion speech.
and drese of a Turk donate t '1111 111 -
and he who should expect la see a
warrior 111 the dress of a equuly
might be disappointed. I ant mol
very old, but 1 have lived in the
woods, anti have 'some acquaintance
with Mullen nal,u'e. I never believe
much in the learning o f them that
dwell in towns, nor I never yet met
with 0104 that had an eye fora ride
00 0 trail," •
"Tiat's my manner of reasoning,
Master Pathllnde', to t1 yarn. Walk-
ing about .,reefs never yet made :1
mart of a hun1tn being. Send the boy
out upon the broad (menu, if you
wish to open his eyes, and lel 1rin1
look upon foreign nations, or 101101 1
still (11e Mee of nature, if you wish
him to understand Ms own character.
Now, there is ((1y brother -In-law, the
sergeant: he is as good a fellow se
ever broke a biscuit, in his way; but
what is he after mill? Why, nothing
but as soldier, you know, When he
wished to marry poor Bridget, 111y
sister, 1 told the girl what he was, as
in duty bound, and what she might
expect from such a husband; but you
know how it is with girls when their
minds are jammed by an inclination.
It is true, the sergeant has risen in
his calling, aucl they say he is au im-
portant man at the fort; but his peer
wife has not lived to see it all, Mr
she has been [lead these £ourtee0
3'OOOS,"
"A soldier's calling is honourable,
provided he has ti't only on the side
of right," returned the Pathfinder;
"and as these colonies are always
right, I take it the sergeant has a
quiet conscience as 10e11 es a good
character, 1 have never slept more
sweetly than when 1 have 1111 the
Mingos, though it is the law with me
to fight always like a white mann and
never lilee an Indian, The Serpent,
Here, has his fashions, and 1 have
urine; and yet we have 111 side by
side these many year's; without either
ihiukilig a herd thought conserving
the other's ways. I tell flim there is
but 0110 heaven and one hell, not-
withstanding his traditions, though
there are many paths to both,"
"That is rational; and he is bound
to believe you, though, I fancy, most
of the roads to the last are on dry
land. The sea is what my poor sis-
ter Bridget used to call a 'purifying
place,' and one is out of the way of
temptation when out of sight of
land. I doubt if as much can be said
.111 fevour of your lakes up here -
say pedantry.
"No. child. there is mere or less
ocean all round the land; that's what
I tell the people ashore, youngster.
They are living, as it might be, in
the midst of the Sea. without know-
ing it; by sufferance, as it were, the
water being so much the more pow-
erful and the largest. Butthere is
no end to conceit in this world: for a
fellow who never saw salt water
often fancies he knows more than
nue win his gene routed the Horn.
No. 11o. this earth is pretty 1011011 an
island; ail all that can be truly Said
not I.n he so' is water."
Young Western had 11 lu',(f(11111
(1,rferenc0 for a mariner of the ocean,
en winch he had often pined to sail;
mann. Although the Pathh10100 teas but h1 1101 also a natural regard- for
.carr,ly i1) the Milne Of life. Mabel the broad she01 1(1 which - he had
:tad mer him with a steadiness ;..hat pa47-ed his life. incl 10111c'h was net
may have been the eort1equence of
having. braved her nerves for the nr
t"nview; but when her eyes 0110000'
te-,'e(1 those of the young mats at the
firer, they fell before the gaze of ad-
miration with which she saw or fan-
t'ied she saw, he greeted her, Each.
in truth, felt that, interest in the oth-
er which similarity of age, condition,
mutual comeliness, and their novel
situation would be likely to inspire
in the young and ingenuous.
"Here," said Pathfinder, with an
honest smile bestowed on Mabel, "are
the friends your worthy father has
sent to meet you. This is a great
Delaware; and one who has had hon-
ours as well as troubles in his clay.
He has an Indian name fit for a chief,
but, as the language is not always
easy for the inexperienced to pro-
nounce, we naturally turn it into
English, and call him the Big Serp-
ent. You are not to suppose, how-
ever, that by this name we 'wish to
say that he is treacherous, beyond
what is lawful in a red -shin; but that
he is wise, and has the cunning which
becomes a warrior. Arrowhead,
there, knows what I mean."
While the Pathfinder was deliver-
ing this address, the two Indians
gazed on each other steadily, and the
Tuscarora advanced and spoke to the
without its beauties in his eyes.
"What you say. sir," he answered
modestly. "may Le (('n as to the At-
lautic:; but we have a resPeclfor the
land up here all Ontario."
"That is 11(41(111140 you are always
land -locked." returned Cap. laughing
heartily; but yonder is the Path-
finder, as they call him, with some
smoking platters, inviting us to share
in the mess; and 1 will confess that
one gets no venison at sea, Master
Western, civility to girls, at your
time of life, comes as easy at taking
in the slack of theensign halyards;
and if you will just keep an eye to her
kid and can, while I join the mess of
the Pathfinder and our Indian friends,
1 make no doubt she will remember
it"
Master Ca.p uttered more than he
was aware of at the time. Jasper
Western did attend to the wants of
Mabel, and she long remembered the
kind, manly attention of the young
sailor at this their first interview, He
placed the end of a log for a seat, ob-
tained for her a delicious morsel of
the venison, gave her a draught of
pure water from the spring, and as
he sat near her, fast won his way to
her esteem by his gentle but frank
manner of manifesting his care;
homage that woman always wishes
away."
"That. 1001111 and 141lllements 1cv111
to sin, 1 will allow; but our tastes art'
bordered by the 10rests, and one is
every day called upon to worship
Gots in such a temple. That Wren are
not always the same, even in the win
de'l0ss, 111111st admit, for the dil'f-0'-
ence between a Mingo and a llela-
were is as plans to be seen as the stir.
te'enee between the snit and 1110
1110011, I tun glad, friend Cap, that we
have met, however, if it be only that
you luny tell the Big Serpent. here
that there are lakes in which the
water is salt. We 11000 been pretty
notch of one mins since our acquain-
tance began, and if the Mohican has
only half the faithin me that 1
have in him, he believes all that I
have told him touching the white
11(011:5 ways alld 11(1111''5 laws; but it
has always seemed to me that none
of the red -skins have given as free a
belief as an holiest man likes to the
accounts of the Big Salt Lakes, and
to that of there being rivers that
flow up stream."
"This comes of getting things
wrong end foremost," answered Cap,
with a condescending nod. "You
have thought of your lakes and rifts
as the ship; and of the ocean and the
tides as the boat. Neither Arrow.
head nor the Serpent need doubt
what you have said concerning both,
though I confess myself to some dif-
ficulty in swallowing the tale about
there being inland seas at all, and
still more that there is any sea of
fresh water. I have come this long
Journey as much to satisfy my own
eyes concerning these facts, as to
oblige the Sergeant and Magnet,
though the first was my sister's nus'
band, and 1 love the last like a
child."
"You are wrong, friend Cap, very
wrong, to distrust the power of God
in any thing," returned Pathfinder
earnestly, "They that live 111 the
settlements and the towns have con,
fined and unjust opinions consarning
the might of His hand; but we, w'i0
pass our time in His very presence.
as it might be, see things differently
—I mean, such of us as have white
n411110. A red -skin has his notions,
and it is right that it should be no;
and if htey are not exactly the sande
as a Christian white man's, there is
no harm in it. Stili, there are mat-
ters which belong altogether to the
ordering of God's providence.; and
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these salt and fresh water lakes are
some of them. 1 do not pretend to
account for these things, but I think
it the duty of all to believe in them."
"Hold on there, Master Path-
finder," interrupted Cap, not without
some heat; "in the way of a proper
anc1 manly faith, I will turn my back
on no one, when afloat. Although
more accustomed to matte all snug
aloft, and to show the proper can-
vass, than to pray when tete hurric-
ane) comes, I know that we are but
helpless mortals at times, and I
Hope I pay reverence where )'evm'-
ence is Clue, All I mean to say is this:
that, being accustomed to see water
in large bodies salt, I should like to
taste it before I can believe it to be
fresh,
"Gott has given the salt lick to the
deer; and He has given to man, red-
skin and white, the delicious spring
at which to slake his thirst. It is
unreasonable to think that He maY
not: have given lakes of pure water to
the hest, end lakes of impure water
to the east."