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great father of waters, before the time comes. This ring 

 he bade me keep, and whenever white men were near us, 

 to wear it so that they might see it. For one day there 

 will come one with such a ring as this upon her hand, to 

 seek his grave, and then we should show her the rock 

 and the Great Spirit would be glad. White stranger, 

 money cannot buy that ring from the wife of She-val-ya. 

 But when you shall find a white squaw with such a ring 

 as that upon her hand, come you with her to our wigwam, 

 and the Great Spirit shall make your heart glad, and the 

 hearts of his red children. Stranger, wherever you go, 

 remember the ring." 



"But we will not go away beyond the great river," 

 said the old man. "I have claimed a reservation of what 

 our white father calls two sections of land, and I will 

 have it upon the banks of our beautiful lake; and we 

 will not go away until the Great Spirit sends the white 

 man's child with the ring." 



The truth of this wild tale was impressed upon my 

 mind by the stern refusal to part with the ring ; but that 

 I ever should see its counter-part, was the farthest thing 

 from my mind, or I should have taken more pains to have 

 ascertained where these Indians might be found again. 

 However, as the old man is one of the reservee's of the 

 treaty, I presume he can be easily found. With breath- 

 less and intense anxiety was this strange narrative 

 listened to, and with the deepest emotions of pleasure 

 and high wrought hopes, by all except one individual in 

 that crowded room. He saw a distant prospect that his 

 own villainy and revenge might yet loose its object, and 

 he earnestly, but vainly battled against the application 

 of the defendant's counsel for a new trial, which they 

 claimed on the ground of newly discovered testimony. 

 And when the Court made the order granting the new 

 trial, it was in vain that the sheriff and sheriff's officers 

 cried order at the top of their voices; it only served to 

 add strength to that universal shout of exultation and 

 thanksgiving, that rose up to heaven. — The Court im- 



