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Hood and myself. The old man smiled in 

 his turn, and as he always seemed proud of 

 the familiar way in which we were accus- 

 tomed to joke with him, we thought no more 

 upon the subject. But he unfortunately 

 mentioned the circumstance to his wife, who 

 imagined in consequence that the drug was 

 not productive of its usual good effects, and 

 they immediately came to the conclusion 

 that some bad medicine had been intention- 

 ally given to them. The distress produced 

 by this idea, was in proportion to their 

 former faith in the potency of the remedy, 

 and the night was spent in singing and 

 groaning. Next morning the whole family 

 were crying in concert, and it was not until 

 the evening of the second day that we suc- 

 ceeded in pacifying them. The old woman 

 began to feel better, and her faith in the 

 medicine was renewed. 



While speaking of this family, I may re- 

 mark that the daughter, whom we designated 

 Green-stockings from her dress, is consi- 

 dered by her tribe to be a great beauty. 

 Mr. Hood drew an accurate portrait of her, 



