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"No," I answered, already deeply interested in his simple story "That was all beforethe nareat river full a hundred years ago, I have been told 'Twas most likely they who came to your people Did they do harm to your fathers?"

"They passed away in peace," he continued, using the language with greater ease as he proceeded, "for ere then strong, and of courage in battle; the fire bright on our altars Nor did we look again upon any white face for so long a ti the people More and more did the fathers believe this Tonty was a visitant frood When he left he said he would coain, and with every sunrise the eyes ofup the river Then, when I was but a child, there cae canoes from below, from the way of the salt water They did land, unmolested of our people, who supposed Tonty had come back; fair-facedmetal from head to heel I was at the shore with the others when they caue, and call themselves Français Others of that race followed, and elcomed and fed them all, even as our fathers had done to Tonty Some arriors with swords, and fire-sticks, but with these were also soht to tell us of another God, greater than the Sun our fathers worshipped They had pictures, and crosses of wood, and prayed to these as we to the Sun But we believed not in their God, and tried to drive thee when they put out our fires, for theyour people, so that the priests ca the of hiht ere rid of the black-robes, and could again live as we had been taught of our fathers"

He stopped speaking, his head bent low on his breast, his eyes on the altar na heart," he went on at last, never looking at ain, until finally war arose between reat river fro boats, and drove us forth froave it up to fire, after killing ainst their fire-sticks, yet we saved much that we valued, and wandered far toward the sunset, bearing along with us the bodies of our chiefs, and the sacred fire from our altar The Français lost us in the wilderness We careet us froe, erecting about it a great wall of earth such as our fathers did in those days ere strong and hty We dwelt there in peace for three seasons of sun and cold, having little trouble with those tribes that roae another Français, a black-robe How he got there I know not, but we laid hands upon hi the past,--bound him before our altar-house, and od, the Sun Yet it was not well Even that very night, while orshipped before the fire which had consumed him, there came upon us many Français out from the dark woods, with fire-sticks and sharp knives, so that only few of our people escaped, and got away to the north I was one, bearing ever with uard We travelled acrossmuch from want, until those who lived wandered to this place, and here set up once more our fathers' ancient altars 'T was thus I learned the words of the tongue, this accursed Français, and learned also to hate those hite faces and black hearts who speak it"