Beadle's Dime Novels No. 95 — page 79: what you’re looking at

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1, ae SOUNDING THE CHIEF, 81 in the hands of the other who talked not at all. Then those who talked much went away, and one of them said a word. They lifted the short guns; he said another word, they looked at each other; he said another word, and they fired the’short guns, and ome was killed. And the others. who talked much went away, and took with them the one who would never talk again. And I saw them in the house where they sell fire-water for wampum, and the one who talked not at all that day, talked as much as any, Why may not my brother and the ‘ Swaying Oak’ do so ?” Jaques could not help smiling at this naive account of the duel which he had witnessed. He went at once to work upon the crude ideas of the Indian. “The daughter of Wah-ta-ha has spoken to me, and she is very angry with the ‘ Swaying Oak.’ ” “The daughter of Wah-ta-ha is very great médecine. The heart of the Huron is big toward the old mother. He will do: much for her, because she is the child of one of the tribe of the Wyandots. Why should they not help one an- other ?” “The ‘ Swaying Oak’ has’ sung harsh songs in the ears of the daughtgr of the ‘ Broken Reed’ (Ann), and she is very sad, for she loves her child. She wishes to make her the wife of a chief, but.the girl will not have it so. A bad Manitou has spoken to the ‘Swaying Oak, and he bas whispered it in the ears of the young squaw. ‘She is a bad child, and sa not obey her mother, who is old.” Obedience to parents in the young, and especially among the squaws, is a law in the Indian nations; and a frown con- tnacted the brow of the chief. ) . “ Beat the evil spirit out of her with rods,” said he, angrily. As Jaques did not wish the anger of the chief to turn upon Maggie, he hastened to avert. it. | “The bad spirit does not dwell in her bosom, ”» answered he, quickly, “ but in that of the ‘Swaying Oak,’ and. it passes from him into her ears. If the ‘Swaying Oak’ were not here, she would do. well.” | “ Bid him depart.” “ He will not do it; and if he would, the evil spirit would remain by her, hidden in the rocks and trees. There is only ~ comichbooks.con