Beadle's Dime Novels No. 142: The Sagamore of Saco — page 22: what you’re looking at

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24 THE SAGAMORE OF &8ACO. fleet runners, who go from tribe to tribe after the manner of the Highland clans so graphically described by Walter Scott in the “ speed, Malise, speed” of his spirited poem. Accord- ingly, Samoset was one of the first to reach the sea-shore, and look with wonder upon the ship which had come like a rare bird, or superior agent, from the spirit-land. He it was who, fifteen years afterward, hailed the Pilgrims at Plymouth with the words: “ Welcome, Englishmen.” ‘Samoset had been of great service to the colony upon the Saco river, and Sir Richard Vines and family had not failed to treat his daughter Acashee with much consideration. Little Hope more especially singled her out as her favorite ' friend and companion. She liked her for her beauty, her courage, her strength and activity, combined with an easy gayety rare in the children of the wood, and almost unknown among the anxious and over-taxed pilgrims to the new world. The urtful savage maiden, acute and penetrating, had not failed to perceive the peculiar characteristics of Hope, and had not failed to turn them to account in herown way. She played her game in a manner worthy of her name, of Net- weaver, in the best sense, Spider in its worst. She hinted to the melancholy and superstitious Pilgrim settlers, doubts of her state as a true human being, for the Indians believed in the incarnation of certain malignant beings, no less than the ascetic whites. To the Indians of the many tribes with whom she and her father were in constant intercourse, she enlarged upon Hope’s gifts as a wonderful medicine-woman, and it was she who had more than once induced them to make attempts to abduct her for purposes of divination. While oar poor Hope was thus constantly under the eye of her wily and malignant companion, she was & source, also, of much solicitude on the part of the parents, who began to feel painfully that evil and cruel thoughts were rife in the minds of their neigavers regarding her, which might end in some tragedy even more distressing than the fate of Sir Wal- ter Raleigh; with whom aye was so fond of associating her- self. - Mistress Vines was a cheerful, active, dignified woman, or ne would have been sore distressed as the conviction grew - comichbooksicom “i : = . & : >