l come and settle beside us at last, I hope," said Mrs Liston,
squeezing the red-man's hand.

The Indian stood gently stroking the arched neck of his magnificent
horse in silence for a few moments. Then he said, in a low voice:--

"Big Otter's heart is with the pale-faces, but he cannot change the
nature which has been given to him by the Great Master of Life. He
cannot live with the pale-faces. He will dwell where his fathers have
dwelt, and live as his fathers have lived, for he loves the great free
wilderness. Yet in the memory of his heart the mother of Weeum will
live, and Waboose and Muxbee, and the tall pale-face chief, who won the
hearts of the red-men by his justice and his love. The dark-haired
pale-face, too, will never be forgotten. Each year, as it goes and
comes, Big Otter will come again to Sunny Creek about the time that the
plovers whistle in the air. He will come and go, till his blood grows
cold and his limbs are frail. After that he will meet you all, with
Weeum, in the bright Land of Joy, where the Great Master of Life dwells
for evermore. Farewell!"

He vaulted on his steed at the last word, and, putting it to the gallop,
returned to his beloved wilderness in the Great Nor'-west.

THE END.

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