threats, or their punishments, in
the scale with youth, and hope, and love?

Never did those transparent waters leap more lightly beneath the
moonbeams than upon this auspicious night. Hate, revenge, fame, power,
all were forgotten in the supreme delights of love.

Who, indeed, would not be a lover? The future takes the hue of the
rainbow, and spans the whole earth with its arch. The past fades into
instant oblivion, and its dark scenes are remembered no more. Every
beautiful thing looks lovelier--spring's breath smells sweeter--the
heavens bend lower--the stars shine brighter. The eyes, the lips, the
smiles of the loved one, bankrupt all nature. The diamond's gleam, the
flower's blush, the fountain's purity, are all _her_ own! The antelope's
swiftness, the buffalo's strength, the lion's bravery, are but the
reflex of _his_ manly soul!

Fate thus had bound these two lovers in indissoluble bonds: let us now
see what it had left in reserve.

The plashing of paddles aroused the lovers from their caressing. Quickly
leaping into his own boat, side by side, they flew over the exultant
waves, careless for the moment whither they went, and really aimless in
their destination. Having safely eluded their pursuers, if such they
were, the princes now consulted as to their future course. After long
and anxious debate it was finally determined that they should part for
the present, and would each night continue to meet at midnight at the
majestic rock which towered up from the waves high into the heavens, not
far from what is now known as Pray's Farm, that being the residence and
headquarters of the O-kak-oni-ta tribe.

Accordingly, after many protestations of eternal fidelity, and warned by
the ruddy gleam along the eastern sky, they parted.

Night after night, for many weeks and months, the faithful lovers met at
the appointed place, and proved their affection by their constancy. They
soon made the discovery that the immense rock was hollow, and contained
a magnificent cave. Here, safe from all observation, the tardy months
rolled by, both praying for peace, yet neither daring to mention a
termination of hostilities to their sires. Finally, the usual
concomitants of lawful wedlock began to grow manifest in the rounded
form of the Princess--in her sadness, her drooping eyes, and her
perpetual uneasiness whilst in the presence of her father. Not able any
longer to conceal her griefs, they became the court scandal, and she
was