THE HISTORIC TREES OF MASSACHUSETTS 



to them what a lattice resembled. He de- 

 scribed it as framework, netting, wicker, 

 or whatever occurred to him as illustrative, 

 when they gave him a long, barbarous and 

 unpronounceable word, as are most of the 

 words in their language. Some years later, 

 when he had learned their dialect more 

 correctly he is said to have laughed out- 

 right, upon finding that the Indians had 

 given him the true term for 'eel pot.' 'The 

 mother of Sisera looked out at the window 

 and cried through the eel pot!'" 1 



"One of these sons of the forest is said to 

 have discovered a more appropriate emblem 

 of the Trinity than even the triangle itself. 

 The missionary had been lecturing on this 

 sublime and incomprehensible mystery, when 

 one of his red auditors, after a long and 

 thoughtful pause, thus addressed him, 'I 

 believe, Mr. Minister, I understand you. 

 The Trinity is just like water and ice and 

 snow. The water is one, the ice is another, 

 and the snow is another, and yet they are 

 all water/" 2 



1 Bigelow, p. 84. 2 Bigelow, p. 85. 



