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sirloin of roast beef, and ply the carving-knife, which I did, whilst he traveled, plates 

 in hand, until they all were helped. The young Princess Mary and the two little daugh- 

 ters of the kind lady, like the three Graces, were bending about under loads of bread 

 and vegetables they were helping the Indians to, and the kind lady herself was filling 

 their glasses from the generous pitcher of foaming ale and ordering the butler to uncork 

 the bottles of champagne which were ready and hissing at the delay. 



SPEECH OF THE WAR CHIEF. 



The War-Chief at this time was charging his long pipe with k'nick k'neck, and some 

 fire being brought to light it, it was soon passed from his into the chief's hands, when 

 he arose from the table, and offering his hand to his royal highness, stepped a little back 

 and addressed him thus: 



' ' My Great Father, your face to-day has made us all very happy. The Great Spirit 

 has done this for us, and we are thankful for it. The Great Spirit inclined your heart to 

 let us see your face, and to shake your hand, and we are very happy that it has been so. 

 (How, how, how !) 



"My father, we have been told that you are the uncle of the queen, and that your 

 brother was the king of this rich country. We fear we shall go home without seeing the 

 face of your queen except as we saw it in her carriage; but if so, we shall be happy to 

 say that we have seen the great chief who is next to the queen. (How, how, how !) 



"My father, we are poor and ignorant people from the wilderness, whose eyes are not 

 yet open, and we do not think that we should be treated so kindly as we have to-day. 

 Our skins are red, and our ways are not so pleasing as those of the white people, and 

 we therefore feel the more proud that so great a chief shou Id come so far to see us, and 

 to help to feed us; this we shall never forget. (How, how, how !) 



His Royal Highness replied to him that he and all his friends present had been highly 

 pleased with their appearance and amusements to-day, and most of all with the reveren- 

 tial manner in which he had just spoken of the Great Spirit, before whom we must all, 

 whether red or white, soon appear. He thanked the chiefs for the efforts they had 

 made to entertain them, and trusted that the Great Spirit would be kind to them in re- 

 storing them safe home to their friends again. 



At this moment, when all were rising and wrapping their robes around them preparing 

 to start, the lady appeared among them, with a large plate in her hands, bearing on it 

 a variety of beautiful trinkets, which she dispensed among them according to their 

 various tastes; and with a general shake of the hand they retired from the grounds to 

 take their carriage for town. 



FBIGHT OF THE BIEDS. 



The parrots and cockatoos all bowed their heads in silence as they passed by them; 

 but as the old doctor (who always lingers behind to bestow and catch the last smile and 

 take the second shake of the hand where there are ladies in question) extended his hand 

 to the kind lady to thank her the second and last time there was a tremendous cry of 

 "There! there! there! " and "Cockatoo! cockatoo!" — the last of which the poor doctor, 

 in his confusion, had mistaken for " Chickabobboo! chickabobboo! " He, however, kept 

 a steady gait between the din of "There! there! there! "and "Cockatoo!" that was 

 behind him, and the inconceivable laughter of his party in the carriage, who now in- 

 sisted on it (and almost made him believe) that his ugly face had been the sole cause of 

 the alarm of the birds and monkeys since the Indians entered the ground.* 



* The polite doctor often spoke of his admiration of this excellent lady and of her beautiful park, 

 and expressed his regrets also that the day they spent there was so short ; for while hunting for the 

 ball which they had lost it seemed he had strolled alone into her beautiful conservatoire, where he 

 eaid, " in just casting his eyes around, he thought there were roots that they had not yet been able 

 to find in this country, and which they stood much in need of." He said " he believed from what 

 he had seen when lie was looking for the ball, though nobody had ever told him, that this lady waa 

 a great root doctor." 



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