what may be offered for life. This is to be decided only on a spot appointed for the ceremony,' and with the shedder of blood unarmed, completely in their power, and bound by the law to make no resistance. When the parties are present, and the proposed ransom is offered, it is considered by the friends of the slain man, and if accepted all is settled; but if not, they have the right to slay the murderer on the spot, without resistance from him or his friends.

7. In this case the friends of the Wolf agreed to consider a ransom, and Young Eagle consented to abide the issue, he and his friends hoping that the sparing of the brother's life might have some influence in the decision. Besides, it was now generally believed in the tribe that the Wolf had been the aggressor.

8. At the day appointed, the parties met in an open space, with hundreds present to witness the scene. The Eagle, all unarmed, was first seated on the ground, and by his side a large knife was laid down, with which he was to be slain if the ransom were not accepted. By his side sat his wife, her hand clasped in his, while the eyes even of old men were dim with tears. Over against them, and so near that the fatal knife could be easily seized, stood the family of the slain Wolf, the father at the head, by whom the question of life or death was to be settled. He seemed deeply moved, and sad, rather than revengeful.

9. A red blanket was now produced, and spread upon the ground. It signified' that blood had been shed which was not washed away, the crimson stain remaining. Next a blanket all of blue was laid over the red one. It expressed the hope that the blood might be washed

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out in heaven, and remembered no more. blanket purely white was spread over all, significant of a desire that nowhere on earth or in heaven a stain of the blood should remain, and that everywhere, and by all, it should be forgiven and forgotten.

10. These blankets, thus spread out, were to receive the ransom. The friends of the Eagle brought goods of various kinds, and piled them high before the father of the slain. He looked at them a moment in silence, and then his glance wandered to the fatal knife. The wife

of the Eagle threw her arms around her husband's neck, and turned her eyes, imploringly, full upon the old man's face, without a word. He had stretched his hand toward the knife when he met that look. He paused; his fingers moved convulsively, but he did not grasp the handle. His lips quivered, and a tear moistened his eye. "Father," said the brother, "he spared my life." The old man turned away. "I accept the ransom," he said "the blood of my son is washed away. I see no stain now on the hand of the Eagle, and he shall be in the place of my son."

All were at

11. The feud was completely healed. last convinced that the Eagle was not a murderer; the ransom itself was presented to his wife as a gift, and he and the avenger of blood lived afterwards as friends and brothers.

1. I LIVE for those who love me,

Whose hearts are kind and true;

For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;

For all human ties that bind me,
For the task my God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that I can do.

2. I live to learn their story,
Who suffered for my sake;
To emulate1 their glory,

And follow in their wake;'
Bards, patriots,* martyrs,* sages,
The noble of all ages,

Whose deeds crown History's pages,
And Time's great volume make.

3. I live to hold communion With all that is divine;

To feel there is a union

"Twixt Nature's heart and mine; To profit by affliction,

Reap truth from fields of fiction,"
Grow wiser from conviction,

And fulfil each grand design.

4. I live to hail that season,
By gifted minds foretold,
When man shall live by reason,
And not alone by gold;

When man to man united,

And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted

As Eden was of old.

5. I live for those who love me,

For those who know me true;
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;
For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrongs that need resistance,
For the future in the dis ance,

And the good that I can do.

1 ĚM'Y-LATE. Strive to equal.

2 WAKE. The track made by a vessel as it passes through the water; hence, path, track.

3 BÄRDŞ. Poets.

4 PÃ'TRI-OTŞ. Those who love and faithfully serve their country.

5 MÄR TYR. One who is put to death

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LXV.

SPEECH OF PATRICK HENRY.

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1. MR. PRESIDENT: It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions' of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the of that Siren* till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who, having eyes, see not, and having hear not, the things which so nearly concern their

ears,

*The Sirens were two maidens (or, according to some, three) celebrated in fable, who lived on an island where they sat in a mcad close to the seashore and with their melodious voices so charmed those who were sailing by, that they forgot home, and every thing relating to it, and abode with these maidens till they perished from the impossibility of taking nourishment, and their bones lay whitening on the strand.