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which hung from his belt, a short red stone pipe, a flint word steel, and a piece of tobacco which having carefully paired and rammed into his pipe, he placed an ember on the top and sinking back, gave himself up to all the luxury of a smoke.

The sun had not yet dipped behind the lofty hickories on Gros. isle and the hunter still continued lazily to puff away, but soon as the last rays of the setting orb had disappeared he rose from his recumbent position,and muttering a few impatient words strode again out of the hut.

First time I ever know'd an Indian behind his time, he exclaimed. There's something on, I wager, to keep Tecumthé or the word from their appointment. I do hope they've tarned ? the word chief and we may yet hold the old lake agin the word.

It must be past sundown. I know