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"1 fear that 1 am too young and too Cap.
inexperienced to be able to say much "They are of littleuse, .. c, and are sal-
on such subject," a> t modestly answeredtom
cast"
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"The deep seas."
I heard of such things, ,but confess
I never saw one."
"Oh- deuce, wiwi a vengeance. A
trader, and no deep-sea! !Why, buy,
you cannot pretend to be anything of
a mariner, Who the devil ever heard
of a seaman without his deep-sea?"
"!I do not pretend to any particular
skill, Master Cap "
'Except in shooting falls, ;Jasper,
except in shooting 'fails and rifts,"
said Pathfinder, corning to The rescue;
"in which (business even you, :Master
Cap, must allow he has some handi-
ness. In my judgment, every man is
to be esteemed or condemned accord-
ing to his gifts; and if blaster :Cain is
useless in running the Oswego Falls,
I try to remember that he is useful
when out of sight of land; and if !Jas-
per be useless when out of sight of
land, 1 do trot 'forget that he has a
true eye and steady hand when run-
ning the falls."
"But gasper is nut useless—would
not 'be useless when out of sight of
land," said Mabel. with a spirit and
energy that caused her sweet voice to
be startling .amid the solemn stillness
of that extraordinary scene. "No one
can ,be useless there, who can do
so shush here, is what I mean; though,
I daresay, he is not as well acquainted
with ships as my uncle."
"Ay, bolster each other up in your
ignorance," returned 'Cap, with a
sneer, "We seamen are so much out-
numbered when ashore, that it is
seldom ave get our dues; hut when you
want to be defended; or trade is to he
carried on, there is outcry enough for
us."
"But uncle, landsmen do not come
to attack our coasts; so that seamen
only meet seamen"
"So much for ignorance! Where are
all the enemies that have landed in
this country, French and English, let
me inquire niece?"
"Sure enough, where are they?" ej-
aculated Pathfinder, "None can tell
better than we do who dwell in the
woods, Master Cap. I have often fol-
lowed their line of march ,by bones
bleaching in the rain, and have found
their trail by graves, years after they
and their pride had vanished together.
'Generals and privates, they lay scat-
tered throughout the land, so many
proofs of what men are when led on
by their lore of great names and 'the
wish to he more their fellows."
"I mfr t say, Master Pathfinder, that
you sometimes utter opinions that are
a little remarkable for a man who lives
by the rifle: seldom snuffing the air
but he smells gunpowder, or turning
out of his Perth but to hear down on
an enemy,"
"If you think I pass my days in
warfare against my kind. you know
neither me n..r my hist, Ty, The man
that lives in the wood- and on the
frontiers nt'ist take the chances of the
things among which he dwells For
this I an not accountable. ;being inn
an humble and powc"rles= hunter and
:rout and guide. \iv teal calling is to
hunt for the army, on its marches and
intimes of peace; altbough 1 ant more
especially engaged in the services of
one ,.!firer, ,who is now absent in the
settlement-. where 1 never follow
him. No. no::bloodshed and warfare
are not my real gifts, but peace and
mercy, Still, J niu:t face the enemy as
well as another: and as for a !\lingo, I
look upon hint as man looks on a
snake, a creat -.ie to be ,put Ibeneath.
the heel whenever a fitting occasion
offers."
"Well, well: I have mistaken your
calling, which I had thought as reg-
ularly warlike as that of a ship's 'gun-
ner. Thereis my brother-in-law, now;
he has been a soldier since he was
sixteen, and he looks upon his trade
as every way as respectable as that of
a seafaring man, a point 1 hardly
think it worth while to dispute with
him!'
i"My father has been taught to !be-
lieve that it is honourable its carry
arms," said 'Mabel, "for ibis 'father
jasper.
"dant you have your feelings!" said
Mabel quickly, "You cannot—no one
tan live among such scenes without
feeling how much they ought to trust
in God!"
"I shall not belie my training so
much as to say d do not sometimes
'think of these things, ,but 'I fear it is
not so often or so much as I ought."
"Fresh water," resumed Cap pithily;
"you are not to expect too much of the
young ratan, Mabel. I think they call
you sometimes by a name which
would insinuate all this: Eau -de- vie,
is it not?"
"Eau -douse," quietly replied Jasper,
who from sailing on the lake had ac-
quired a knowledge of French, as well
as of several of the Indian dialects, ".It
is a name the Iroquois have given me
10 distinguish me from some of my
companions who once sailed upon the
sea, and are fond of filling the ears of
the natives with stories of their great
-alt water lakes."
"And why shouldn't they :I daresay
they do the savages no harm. Ay,ay,
Eau -deuce; that must mean the white
brandy, which may well enough be
called the deuce, for deuced stuff it
16!'•
"The signification of Eau -dance is
sweet -water, and it is the manner in
which the French express fresh -wat-
er." rejoined jasper, a little nettled.
And how the devil do they ,hake
water our of Eau -deuce, when it
means :brandy in Eau -de -vie? 'Besides,
among seamen, Eau always means
brandy; and Eau -de -vie, brandy of a
high proof. I think nothing' of your
Ignorance, young man; for it is natural
to your situation, and cannot be help-
ed. If you will return with ane, and
and make a u'r'ge or two on the Atl-
antic. it will serve you a good turn
the remainder of your days: and t\itsb-
•i there, and all the other tutor„
women near the coast, will think all
the t'tetter of you. should you live to ,be
as •id as one of the trees in this for -
5t."
'Nay. nay," interrupted the single -
'hearted and generous guide; "jasper
v. -ante not for friends in this region. I
tan assure you: and though seeing the
world, according to his habits, may do
ti:r. good as well as another, Ave shall
':,ink none the worse of hien if he nev-
^.1i:. us, Eau -douse or Ean-de vie,
t'e is a :brave. true hearted youth, and
ai'vays eleep as soundly when he is
- atC11 a f 1 -,vas up and tir-
'rif: ay, and for that metier,
• ....ser z, The Sergeant's daughter
e'e lPesn't believe it necessary for
f•".= :a:: to go to sea in order to make
of him, or one who is worthy
respected and esteemed."
be- made noreply to this appeal,
▪ ever, looke,', towards the west-
▪ - -..ore, a!tho.:glt the darkness rend-
...._ :he natural action enneccssary
her cacc But jasper felt
a int ..ity for his ;ay -
L i, pruie of youth and
.-..,bocd revolting at the idea of his
. 'nrlitinti n,:,• to , ,117maitd
is f Iei fello',c or the seniles
td dt equals of the other sex. Stili he
t. t to utter aught that
n scrod oar- i the n-
f 1 ahel, and his self -command
,!hat-,, more eredital„e than itis
and spirit.
-etend not to things 1 don't
e s irl, "and lay no claim to
sledge r. t',ne .,'eau nr
t .We steer by the stars and
compass on these lakes. running
fr:.m headland to headland; and hav-
ihg little need of figures and calculat-
ions, make no .use of them. tatty we
bare our claims notwithstanding, as I
have oftenheard front those who
have ,passed years on the ocean. In
the first place, we have always land
aboard and much of the time on a lee
shore; and that iI !nave ,frequently
'heard marker hardy sailors Our 'gales
are sudden and severe, and we are
ccnttpelied to Fain for out portsat all
hours."
"'You have :your leads," interrupted
was a soldier before hint,":.
"Yes. yes," resumed. the. ,guide;
"most of the Sergeant's !gifts are mar-
tial, and he looks at most things in
this wurid over the 'barrel of his unu.s-
ket. One of his notions; now, is -to
prefer a king's .piece to a regular,
double -sighted, long -barrelled rifle.
Such conceits will conte over men
from long habil; and Prejudice is, Per"
haps, the commonest iailin; Of Hum-
an nater',"
While the desultory conversation
.fust related had !been carried on in
subdued voices, the canoes were
dropping slowly clown with the cur-
rent within the deep shadows of the
western shore, the ,paddles being used
merely to preserve the desired direct -
inn and (roper ,tosittous. The strength
of the stream varied materially, the
water being seemingly still in place-.
while in other rcac'hee it flowed at a
rate exceeding two or even three
miles in the hour. C)n the rifts it even
dashed forward with a velocity that
tt•as appealing, to the unpractised eye.
Jasper was of opinion that they aright
drift dawn with the current to the
mouth of the river in two hours from
the time they left the shore, and he
and the Pathfinder had agreed on the
expediency of suffering the canoes to
float of themselves for a time, or at
least until they had ,passed the first
dangers of their new -movement, The
dialogue had been carried on in voices,
too, guardedly loci'; for though the
quiet of deep solitude reigned in that
vast and nearly boundless forest,
nature was speaking wd!i Iter thous-
and tongues in the eloquent language
of night in a wilderness. The air
sighed through ten thousand trees,
the water rippled, .and at 'places even
roared along the shores; and now and
then was heard the creaking ,of a
.branch or a trunk, as it rtibibed ag-
ainst some object .similar to itself, un-
der the vibrations of a nicely 'balanced
body. All 'living sounds ha•d ceased.
Once. it is trne,•the Pathfinder fancied
he heard the hotel of a distant wolf,
of which a few prowled through these
wdods; 'but it was a transient and
doubtful cry, that might possibly
have been attributed to the imaginat-
ion, When he desired itis 'companions,
however, to cease talking, Itis vigil-
ant ear caught the ,peculiar sound
which is made by the parting- of a
dried ,branch of a tree, and which, if
THUR,BDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1941
his senses did not deceive pini, came
from the western shore, All 'rho are
accustomed to that 'particular sound
will understand haw readily the ear
receives it, and how easy it is to dis-
tinguish the tread which !breaks the
(branch from every other noise of the
forest.
",filer,' is the footstep of a ratan on
flit
hank," said Pathfinder •to ,Jasper,
speaking in neither a whisper nor yet
in a voice loud enough to be heard at
any distance. "!Can the accursed Iro-
quois have crossed the river already,
with their arms, and without a boat?"
"it may be the Delaware. ile,would
iolloty its, of course, down this !bank
and would know where to look for us
Let me draw closer into the .shore,
and reconnoitre,"
"Go, boy, 'hut he light with the pad-
dle, and on no account venture ashore
on an ousartainty."
"is this prudent?" alentanded'Ma,bel,
with an impetuosity that rendered
her inCall tiou:s in int lilting her
svweet voice.
"Vert itivr den l t if you s. s t
.!e tt or •peak c
loud. Pair one. 1 like your voice,, which
is is soft and pleasing, after listening
so long to the tones of men; but it
must not he heard too much, or too
freely, just now. Your father, .the hott-
est Sergeant, will tell you, when you
meet hint, that silence is a double 'vir-
tue on a trail. Go, 'jasper, and do just-
ice to your own character for pru-
dence,"
Ten anxious minutes succeeded the
disappearance_ of the :canoe of Jasper,
'which glided away front that of the
Pathfinder so noiselessly, that it had
been sw'aldnwed up in the gloom be-
fore Mabel allowed herself 4o !believe
the young ratan would really venture
alone on a service tvlticlt struck her
imagination as singularly dangerous.
During this tinge, the party continued
to ;float with current, not speaking
and, it might almost he said, no one
!breathing, :so strong was ,the 'general
desire to catch the minutest sound
that should come front `the shore, •But
the sante solemn, we *might ineed say
sublime, quiet reigned as before; the
washing of the w'ate-, as it pilitd u•p
against some slight obstruction, and
the sighing of the trees, alone inter-
rupting the Members of the forest.
At the end of the period mentioned,
the snapping of dried branches was
again faintly .heard, and the Pathfind-
er fancied that the sound of smother-
ed voices reached hits.
"I may he mistsk.n," he said, "fur
the thoughts often fancy what the
heart might's: these were notes
like the low tones of the Delaware,"
'D',' the dead of the savages :ever
walk' demanded 'Capt,
"Ay, and 8111 too, iii their happy
hunting -grounds, .but nowhere else. A
red -skin finishes with the 'arch, after
the breath quits the hotly. 1t is not
one of his .sifts to linger around ]tis
wigwam when his hour has passed,'
"I ser some object on the water,"
whispered Mabel, whose eye had not
ceased to dwell on the body of !gloom,
with close intensity, since the disap-
pearance of Jasper,
'It is the, canoe," returned the
guide, greatly relieved, "A1! must :be
safe, or we should have heard from
the lad."
lin another minute the two canoes,
which became visible to those they
carried only as they drew near each
other, again floated side 'by side, and
the form of Jasper was reconized at
the stern .of the boat. The figure of a
second man was seated in the how;
and as the young .sailor so wielded bus
'paddle as to bring the face of his'cnnt-
'anion near the eyes of the 'Pathfinal-
er and !Weibel, they both recognised
the person of 'the Delaware,
"Chin:gachgook—my 'brother-" said
the guide in the dialect of the other's
people, a tremor .shaking his voice
that betrayed the strength of his feel-
ings, "Chief of the ;Mohicans! my
heart is 'very glad. Often have we pas-
sed through blood and strife together,
but I was afraid it was never to Ibe
again."
"13ugh! The 'hlin•gos are squaws!
Three of their scalps hang at my
,girdle. They do not know how to
strike the .Cereat Serpent of the Del-
aware. Their hearts have noblood;
and their thoughts are on their return
path, across the water: of the Great
Lake."
'"Rave you :been among them,
Chief and what has !ltecesnte of the
warrior who was in the river?"
"He has turned into a fish, and lies
at the bottom with the eels! Let his
'brothers bait their hooks for him.
Pathfinder, I have counted the enemy,
and have touched their rifles,"
"Alt, I thought he won1d,lbe vent-
uresome!" exclaimed the guide in
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English. "The risky- fellow has lbeen
in the midst of them and has ,brought
to. back their whole history, Speak,
Chingach.gook, and •I 'wild make our
friends as knowing as ourselves."
The Delaware now related in a 'low
earnest manner the substance of all
his discoveries, since he was ilast seen
struggling with his foe in the river.
A ratan who had business with the
big wholesale firm reports that,
while waiting for an interview with
a director, two nen came out of an
inner office, one of theta lecturing
the other sternly. "You ought to
have been more definite fi'ith these
people, Harty, said the first one.
"With this shiny - ahallying you
won't get anywhere with them. You
should have been .decisive and
given them: a definite answer—yes,
no, or perhaps."
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