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with a story, which, if the hostess would give him leave, 

 he wished to tell. The hostess, whose complacency had 

 been recalled by the prospect of payment, consented. 

 i "The Indian, addressing himself to his benefactor, 

 said : ' I suppose you read the Bible ?' The man assented. 

 'Well,' said the Indian, 'the Bible say God made the 

 world, and then He took him and looked on him and 

 say: 'It's all very good.' Then He made light, and 

 took him and looked on him and say : * It's all very good.' 

 Then He made dry land and water, and sun and moon, 

 and grass and trees, and took him and looked on him, 

 and say : ' It's all very good.' 



" ' Then he made beasts, and birds, and fishes, and 

 took him and looked on him, and say : ' It's all very 

 good. ' 



" 'Then He made man, and took him and looked on 

 him and say: 'It's all very good.' Then He made 

 woman, and took him and looked on him, and He no 

 dare say one such word.' 



" The Indian having told his story, withdrew. 



" Some years after, the man who had befriended him 

 had occasion to go some distance into the wilderness, be- 

 tween Litchfield, then a frontier settlement, and Albany, 

 where he was taken prisoner by an Indian scout, and car- 

 ried to Canada. When he arrived at the principal settle- 

 ment of the tribe, on the southern border of the St. 

 Lawrence, it was proposed by some of the captors that 

 he should be put to death. During the consultation an 

 old Indian woman demanded that he should be given up 

 to her, that she might adopt him in the place of a son 

 whom she had lost in the war. He was accordingly 



