burning to death their prisoners
existed in this nation. An unfortunate female of the Paduca nation,
taken in war, was destined to this horrid death.

[Illustration: Pawnee Brave.]

Just when the funeral pile was to be kindled, this young warrior,
having unnoticed prepared two fleet horses, with the necessary
provisions, sprang from his seat, liberated the victim, seized her in
his arms, placed her on one of the horses, mounted the other himself,
and made the utmost speed toward the nation and friends of the
captive! The multitude, dumb and nerveless, made no effort to rescue
their victim from her deliverer. They viewed it as the immediate act
of the Great Spirit, submitted to it without a murmur, and quietly
retired to their village.

INDIAN GRATITUDE.

As an Indian was straying through a village on the Kennebec, he passed
a gentleman standing at his store door, and begged a piece of tobacco.
The person stepped back, and selected a generous piece, for which he
received a gruff "tank you," and thought no more of the affair. Three
or four months afterwards, he was surprised at an Indian's coming
into the store and presenting him with a beautiful miniature birch
canoe, painted and furnished with paddles to correspond. On asking
the meaning of it, he was told, "Indian no forget; you give me
tobacco; me make this for you." This man's gratitude for a trifling
favor had led him to bestow more labor on his present than would have
purchased him many pounds of his favorite weed.

[Illustration: Indian Chief.]

INDIAN OBSERVATION.

On his return home to his hut one day, an Indian discovered that his
venison, which had been hung up to dry, had been stolen. After going
some distance, he met some persons, of whom he inquired if they had
seen a _little_, _old_, _white_ man, with a short gun, and accompanied
by a small dog with a bob-tail. They replied in the affirmative; and
upon the Indian's assuring them that the man thus described had stolen
his venison, they desired to be informed how he was able to give such
a minute description of a person whom he had not seen. The Indian
answered thus:

"The thief I know is a _little_ man, by his having made a pile of
stones in order to reach the venison from the height I hung it
standing on the ground; that he is an _old_ man, I know by his short
steps, which I have traced over the dead leaves in the woods; that he
is a _white_ man, I know by his turning out his toe