Gaut Gurley

d to me

e thou

being absent on a visit to a neighbor. Contrary to what might have been expected, after the favorable impression he had so evidently made on the settlers that day, and the attainment of the still more important object with him, the regaining of his old fatal influence over Elwood, he appe

o death for those Elwoods, to-day, or has something gone

at I intended, for I had objects in view, mos

I suppose yo

ing that has not gone exact

s that,

know it. If I should name it, you would n

ts you had in view, before you came here, whether you told me or not. But, since you have been in this s

nts do you m

cularly those that have

ward them, since they came her

out an acquaintance between his son and only heir, and our Avis; and I knew you was, those days, studying how it could be done, and I

s wife. "Suspected! What business had you to suspe

minute. No, I never hinted it to her, or anybody else, and it was guesswork, after all," replied the abashed wife, in a deprecating tone,-she having been tempte

y take it into your silly head to guess about my objects," rejoined the other,

u seized on the first chance, after we came here, to court them, and have followed it up; first, in the affair of the young man and Avis, and then, in drumming up the whole settlement in getting up this log

lly of little consequence whether you see t

ntly debating with himself how far it was policy to disclose his plans to his

ich she may unintentionally hurt, if she don't, I suppose I must give you some insight into my movements, so that you can manage according

and what you want, and can see any obj

s I run, to help Elwood make that fortune; how he threw me off with simple wages, instead of the share I alw

ew it

ning that Elwood, by allowances made by the creditors to his wife, and sales of furniture which they allowed the family to retain, brought quite a little sum of money into the settlement,-enough, at

in any other new country? And what can you make ou

ade to favor my interests, there is no telling what could be done. Now, what claim had I on any other settler to be that one to aid me? On Elwood I had a claim to help me to p

by this time, after what you have bee

n by surprise, disarmed, and yielded; so that object is accomplished, as well as m

to unders

ore, soon; that was on

s the ot

od, which now seems in fair progress, but which would be liable to b

d we don't know what chances she may have. If she and the young man should keep on intimate, and set their hearts on it, I don't know that I should oppose it much; but what object we can have in helping it o

know, and which I meant should never pass my lips; and, when I tell it to you, see that it never passes yours. That young m

at so,

nths. I made the discovery b

how you could

at all, and I fear I shall yet repent it; but things

re, who is going to give the

y, that Elwood's wife is an enemy to me. I contrived all ways to get speech with her, but she studiously avoided giving me a chance, nor was I able once even to catch her eye, that I might give her a friendly nod of recognition. I know she never wished me about, in former times, but I then attributed h

n that

s. Elwood; and, if Avis could be made to go and see her, so much the better. She would make an impression without trying. You would have to manage, but how, I am not now prepared to decide. I will think of it, and you may, and we will talk it over aga

at in this settlement. What girl is there th

still, there is one whom I w

be, I should

chief, called Wenongonet, who lives up the lakes, and was on

an girl!

ith another woman, at the south end of the lake, where she was visiting in the family of one of the settlers, and I inquired her out, as she appeared so much above the common run of girls. But she is courted, they say,

g a moment, in evident doubt and surprise at what met his gaze, he muttered: "The devil is always at hand when

contrivance answering to a bridle, he was about bringing to a stand in the road, opposite to the house. Without heeding the exclamations of surprise and questions of his wife, who had never seen an animal

horse you are tra

eplied the Indian, whose language was a lit

d think he would be a har

ry you ten miles an hour, you not the one

ame him to be

young to mind halter; then ox-work, horse-work. This

id you c

ah. Been here to hunt some, but not see you befo

ut I have heard some of t

he Indian that has

hings. Come here to hunt now, soon as time. But must have moose kept when off hunting: thou

? He would jump any pasture or yard fence th

ke yard, keep him in a while, and feed him with grass or browse. I tend him first. Y

an opinion how far his subservience could be secured; and, appearing to become satisfied on this point, and believing the first great step for making him what was

ng with your animal, somehow; and you shall stay, too, till our company start on our hunt, and then you shall go with

u; show you how catch

y. You have an affair that you feel a peculiar in

upted the startled but

di

heard somethi

you hel

to make the matter work as you

at; but she don't talk right, now; perhaps, w

, he led the animal into the cow-yard, where he was tied and fed, and the fence, already made high to exclude the wolves, as usual among first settlers, was topped out by laying on a few additional poles, so as to prevent the possibility of his e

duction had been exchanged. "Books, when you became able to read and understand them," she continued, turning to the Indian, "books must hav

ngs in books," replied

e knowledge?" rejoined

e speaking on a subject in which he felt no particular interest. "Lawyers make

ould draw him out, the naturally shrewd mind of the native made brilliant by the light of science, "surely you c

e benefit of his scientific acquirements; "yes, education good, very good, sometime. Instance: I go to Boston with my moose next winter; show him for pay, one, two

subject of her scrutiny fall so much below her preconception of an educated Indian. "You say, lawyers, preachers, and doctors make money from the superiority which their education

ey, be great man. So went; study one year; try hard to like; but no use. Uneasy all the time; could not keep down the Indian in me; he always rising up, more every day, all the time drawing me away to the woods,-pull, pull, pull. I fight a

other of his adventures in the forest, which he was thus encouraged to relate, and in which he often became a graphic and interesting narrator, and displayed the keen observation of the obj

or the education of the natives of the forest; nor would we dampen the faith and hopes of those philanthropists who still believe in the redemption of that dwindling race by the aids of science and civilization; but we confess our inability to perceive any general results, flowing from the attempts of that character, at all adequate to the pains and outlay bestowed on the experiment. And we think we cannot be alone in this opinion. We bel

an preacher of the times of the Pilgrims; in the eloquent Ojibway chief of our own times, and a few others; as well as in the person we have already introduced into this work, th

traditions are disturbed or swept away by it, he fails of grasping and digesting the new ones which science and civilization present to his mind; and he falters and gr

Indian! whose

uds, or hears h

science never

solar walk

ture to his h

d-topt hill, an

ld in depth of

island in the

e more their nat

t, no Christian

nt's his na

el's wings, no

dmitted to th

dog shall bea

system, in the mean while, deprived as it is of the forest atmosphere, in which it was alone fitted to exist and reach its greatest perfection, suffers even more than his mental one. And his whole man, both mental and physical, begins to degenerate, and soon dwindles into insignificance. Yes, it is only in his native fore

the main incidents of which we h