beauty laughed and clung to my arm in a very ecstasy of malice, made breathless by her own mirth.

“Come, court me prettily, Euan. It is my due after all these grey and Quaker years when I made eyes at you from the age of twelve, and won only a scowl or two for my condescension.”

But we had reached the river bank, and there the group came once more together, the ladies curious to see the batteaux arriving, loaded with valley sheep, we officers pointing out to them the canoes of our corps of Oneida guides, and Hanierri and the Reverend Mr. Kirkland reading their Testaments under the shade of the trees, gravely absorbed in God.

“A good man,” said I, “and brave. But his honest Stockbridge Indians know no more of Catharines-town than do the converted Oneidas yonder,”