Beadle's New Dime Novels: The Specter Chief — page 57: what you’re looking at

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=e a THE PHANTOM CHIRP. cr * = - known to have adhered to the usage of more civilized peo- . ple. One of them lived more than forty years with 4 wife, toward whom he conducted himself in the most irre- _ ‘proachable manner. The hope of maintaining a hold on the affection of Kishkalwa was not therefore unfoundel ‘nor singular in his youthful wife; and had not love for him stimulated her, ambition might well have promp’el as her efforts. Yet to confederate with whites, to rob her | tribe of two captives, was a serious offence; the detection . of which would assure:!}y bring with it the most exe n- - plary punishment—including, perhaps, repudiation by Kishkalwa, i ** Bat,” said the Swan to herself, in her own tongue, . #8if I leave the white girl here, my husband will be _ wholly alienated from me. Scarcély two years! Oh, my 3 Peshikthe, (Deer,) why did’st thou not live for me! le o would have seen me in thy eyes, and this trouble woul! s have passed by! Better die—better die, than have this re: _girlin my lodge. She shall go—lI will risk every thing for this.” It was the conflict between her desire to be rid of Marie, _ and her dread of the consequences of discovery, whi-h gave to her that troubled aspect, attributed by Marie to the bare remembrance of her husband's unkindness. Bit her resolution was taken, and she lost no time in pre- - “pariug for its execation. | _ The preservation of the surveyor from mortal torture Wag due to the interference of the head chief, the inclina- tion of whose mind was never in favor of that usage of ‘ air iy the tribes. In this, as in other particulars, his name has — been rescued by a just tradition from the weight of gra- ‘tuitous barbarity whtch rests upon the mass of his nation. Ik is to be lamented that the indifference of the ‘present generation ef whites to the detai/s of aboriginal history, yas allowed to pass undistinguished the memory of many a poble savage, whose freedom from the faults which renter ee - distasteful the annals of his people, entitle him to our ad- | ~ mairation aud respect. The one in question Was by woo | | ven’ im bis dislike uf col-i-blooded = lo pee <2 "