CHAPTER XII. 



TOMAH JOSEPH. 



|UST a few evenings since, I read in 

 my "Transcript" the following ex- 

 tract, which most readers would 

 have passed unnoticed ; which hav- 

 ing perused, I leaned back in my 

 chair, and laughed so heartily that I 

 had to explain myself, and so I read this, 

 aloud : 



" The Passamaquoddy Indians are represented at 

 Augusta, Me., by their delegate Tomah Joseph, who 

 presented a petition for a road from Big Lake to 

 Grand Lake Stream, fifty dollars, a priest, a stove, 

 a chimney, and a dance-hall." 



Shades of the departed ! whose mantle has fallen 

 upon thee, Tomah, that we should thus behold thee 

 in this new sphere of usefulness ? 



Whence the vaulting ambition that led thee to 

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