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32 of a steam-boat, and longing for a rod and line with which to make some of them captive. Presently I heard the wild laugh of half a dozen Indian boys, and turning around saw them coming toward me. I put my finger to my lips and they were silent instantly. I then beconed to them to approach, and pointed out the fish to them. One of the little fellows - he was not twelve years old, ran immediately to a pile of laths which was upon the warf, seized one, whittled it into a barbed point, returned to the spot, threw it, caught it again instantly and drew it out with a splendid large bass attached to it. All this was done in much less time than it has taken me to relate it; and such a shout as the young rascals set up as they darted off to their wigwams, can scarcely be imagined. Relating this incident to a friend, he met it by giving the following instance of Indian calculation. He was standing one day at his bed-room windown, - in a third story, watching the pedestrians, and amusing himself occassionally by blowing pieces of putty through his air gun at acquaintances who chanced to go by. While thus engages an Indian seated himself fuon a stop of the home opposite and commenced eating some bread a kind neighbor had given him. No sooner was he seated than my friend turned his