ames,
quenched in the life-blood of the heroic, the high-minded, the hapless
Tecumseh.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE
How Big Black Burl Figured in the Paradise 9

CHAPTER II.
How Little Bushie Figured in the Paradise 17

CHAPTER III.
How Big Black Burl and Bushie Figured in Each Other's Eyes 26

CHAPTER IV.
How Somebody was Lost in the Paradise 39

CHAPTER V.
How Grumbo Figured in the Paradise 46

CHAPTER VI.
How Big Black Burl Figured on the War-path by Day 52

CHAPTER VII.
How Big Black Burl Figured on the War-path by Night 60

CHAPTER VIII.
How Big Black Burl Figured in a Quandary 67

CHAPTER IX.
How Big Black Burl Figured in Ambush 73

CHAPTER X.
How Big Black Burl Figured in the Fight 81

CHAPTER XI.
How Little Bushie Figured in the Fight 90

CHAPTER XII.
How Big Black Burl and Grumbo Figured After the Fight 99

CHAPTER XIII.
How Big Black Burl Figured in his Triumph 109

CHAPTER XIV.
How Big Black Burl Figured in Oratory 117

CHAPTER XV.
How Big Black Burl Sewed it Up in his War-cap 127

CHAPTER XVI.
How Big Black Burl Figured on the Peace-path 136

CHAPTER XVII.
How the Glory of his Race Figured in his Rising 147

CHAPTER XVIII.
How the Eagle and the Lion and the Big Bear Figured in the
Great North-west 154

CHAPTER XIX.
How Big Black Burl Figured at the Death-stake 164

CHAPTER XX.
How Kumshakah Figured in The Light of the Setting Sun 174

CHAPTER XXI.
How the Glory of his Race Figured in his Setting 180

BURL.

Chapter I.

HOW BIG BLACK BURL FIGURED IN THE PARADISE.

Six feet six he stood in his moccasins, yet seemed not tall, so broad he
was and ponderously thick. He had an elephantine leg, with a foot like a
black-oak wedge; a chimpanzean arm, with a fist like a black-oak maul;
eyes as large and placid as those of an ox; teeth as large and even as
those of a horse; skin that was not skin, but ebony; a nose that was not
a nose, but gristle; hair that was not hair, but wool; and a gri