Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 33: what you’re looking at

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THE INDIANSCANOR, or Marian: pointed-to the birds overhead’ “Not that, exactly. I mean an element: that: harmonies | with the scene itself:’ We might put ourselves in. tlio: pen but we should spoil it—we ‘need life that i in keeping ‘with- - this wild selitude ; a deer, stooping to drink;‘on yonder: mar- ging a grizaly bear, contemplating the scene’ fromthe high, ock, or—” = A wild Indian, paddling his canoe.” “ Would be worth every’thing-else. A genuine Sioux -war- esires at present.” “T am sure: you have pictured such a being: in your imagi= nation often enough to transfer him to paper.” “Yes; but you know, Marian, there is nothing like life . itself” “If I mistake not, yonder is an Indian canoe, this minute. Its position; however, is not the best inthe world for sketching.” - Marian pointed toward the upper part of the lake, at a clump-ef ‘bushes that stood upon the very margin: At the base'of these was visible an object which might have been a Avior, in his war-paint, fierce as the furies, would :complete my stone, end of a log, or the stern of an Indian canoe.: If the |} latter, a -hunter’s eye would have seen .a partial: attempt-at concealment, as if the savage owner preferred that no one bée- side himself should see it. Had such been his wish; a little more’-care’ would have made -it invisible to the orb:of-an. Indian himself; but what reason could ‘a Minnesota savage: - have for concealing himself from another of his. race?° And. it was hardly probable that any stray hunter or settler would — note'or take alarm, should he discover the frail vesse! drawn ibeneath the bushes, luctant: to admit its being an Indian bark canoe. It required several minutes for the: artiet to — the object. so carefiilly pointed out by his companion, and- when: he ‘did. geo, he was so disappointed in its appearance, that he was re. “TT am‘sure of it,” she said, positively.. ‘ I have*seen: them: — before; and can not be mistaken. This canoe ix afac-simile: of that that. Darley has put in his ‘ Hiustrated *Coaper,’ se that: you may tke the liberty of giving’ sete rlonda:a etter SE ERR ee Gomichbooks (E(o)