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Poetical.

the splashing waters sounded to they kindled a fire and prepared ' the air with their cries of rage and

her fancy like the first dash of the some food, and offered a share ot dehance. They stood lor a mo-

oar. That passed awav. and riis- it to Marguerite and Lionis. roor meni, as n aeuocraunjr what next

appointment and tears followed. Marguerite, as you mav suppose, to do; jjiecumeh maintained an

Her boy was beside her; the had no mind to eat; but Louis,

yBOM THE K. Y. AMERICAN. THE HUNTER'S BRIDE.

I will fco to the land where the hunters -r i i i I i . t ,m t dWeii, young Louis, who, though scarce- saith tradition, eat as hartily as it

ly twelve years old, already had I he had been safe within the wall

his imagination filled with daring of the fort After the supper, the

deeds. Born and bred in a fort, Indians stretched themselves be

he was an adept in the use of the fore the fire, but not till they had

bow and the musket; courage taken the precaution to bind Mar

seemed to be his instinct, and guerite to a tree, and to compel

danger his element, and battles Louis to he down in the arms ot

And build me a hut in a svlvan dell

And mv home shall be that tranquil lake.

Which none but the hunter's paddles break

Where the Indan boy, in his bark canoe,

Like a dolphin cleaves the waters blue; V And beneath the moon of a summer's sky. H isks in the light of his loved ones eye. Tor I long to roam on the mountains side, To hunt the deer as a hunter's bride.

undaunted and resolved air but with bis followers the aspect of armed men, and a force thrice their number, bad its usual effect. They fled. He looked after thera cried, shame!' and then with a desperate yell, leaped into the water and stood beside Marguerite. The canoes were now within a

Though coarse and rude is the mountain and wounds were 'household his uncle ?ecumeh. Neither of few yards He put his knife to

fare.

Yet pure is the breath of the mountain air And ruereed the path in the hunter's way,

Yet sweet are his dreams at the close of day.

Though toil and trouble his course pursue. Health tinges his cheek with a dusky hue; And in fleetness he rivals the wild gazelle And his heart in the forest can love so well, That I long to roam on the mountain side, And wear the garb of a hunter's bride. My joy shall be by the silent shore To watch the return of his flashing oar. And view on the breast of that limpid lake The eddies around it in murmurs break And ripple, and sparkle, knd.turl away

In the soothing beam ot trie surer rayr.

her bosom "The daughter of

Tecum?eh." he said, "should have died by the judgment of our war-

words' with him. He laughed at the prisoners, as you may imahis mother's fears: but, in spite of gine, closed their eyes. Louis

his boyish ridicule, they strength kept his eyes fixed on his mother.

ened, till apprehension seemed She sat upwrisht beside an oak , nors, but now by her brothers

reality. Suddenly the sound of tree; the cord was fastened around hand must she perish;" and he the signal gun broke on the still- her waist, and bound around the I drew back his arm to give vior

ness ot tne night, jjotli mother- tree, u men had heen marten y io me laiai stroue, when an arand son sprang on their feet will? lightning: the moon poured its row pierced his own breast, and

a crv ofiov and were pressinV beams through the naked bran- he tell insensible at his sister's side.

hand in hand towards the ouiei ches upon her face convulsed with

gate, when asentinel stopped them the agonv of despair and fear.

to remind Marguerite it was her V ith one hand she held a cruei

And his heart shall giadeu to hear my song Niusband's order that no one fix to her lips, the other was on

0vt U 1)11 Ult aj f.- Jinuiiivjiwwuij,

And I ne'er will depart horn that mountain

side.

But share the fate of a hunter's bride.

A moment after Marguerite v as in the arms of her husband, and Louis, with his bow unstrung, bounded from the shore, and was received in his fathers canoe: and

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should venture without the walls her rosarv The sinlit of his mo-

after sunset. She, however, in ther in such a situation, stirred up the wild shores rung with the ac-

sisted on passing and telling the daring thoughts in the bosom of i clamations of the soldiers, while

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soldier that she would answer to the heroic bov but he lav pow the commandant for his breach of erless in his unele's naked braw

THE TRAVELLERS A TAX-

By the Author of Redwood.

The idea on which the story is built is ve

rv happilv conceived, easily uniting the in-.

tcrcst ot a fictitious narrative wun me tiescription of real places and the memory of ac

tual events, a tamilyis representee! as making "the grand tour of Ni.igary, the l ikes.

Montreal Quebec, Sec. I his afMicls an

a t IT 1 ml" flr-'l 111111 V lll.-Tl ' .1 II I III! . . I

habits which has been just sufficiently used. b Some beautiful though short descriptions rf natural scenery occur, and a few romantic e Mts; and a great many moral reflections drop from the mouth of the moher for the instruction of her children. Upon the whole it is a pleasant book. We will just remark, in passing, that the author has sometimes forgotten to keep herself down to the level of voung people, and writes in an elevated and poetical strain, which it belongs to the mature to appreciate. "A commandant of the fort (which was built by the French to protect their traders against the

savages,) marnecl a young Iro

S qnois who was before or after the U marriage converted to the Catho . . . . A

lie faith fche was the daughter of a chieftain of her tribe and grrat efforts were made by her peopleto induce her to return to them. Her brother lurked in the tit ighhnrhood. and procured in terviews with her, and attempted to win her ba'k by all the motives ot national pride and familv aHeeiion; but all in vain The ounr G;ranga. or, to call her bv her baptismal name. Maguer

ite. w as bound by a threefold cord her love to her husband, to her son, and to her icligion. Mecujrteh, finding persuasion ineffeetu al, had recourse to stratagem The commandant wapiti the hah it of going down the river often on fishing excursions, and when c returned, he would fire his sig rsal gun, and Murgueiite and her bov would hasten to the snore to oreet him.

On one occasion he h

rone longer than usual

id

en

orders she passed the outer barrier. Young Louis held up ftis how and arrow before the sentin

el, saying gaily, UI am my mother's body guard you know " Tradition has preserved these striking circumstances, as the events that followed rendered them memorable. 'The distance" continued! the stranger, from the fort to '-the place where the commandyii. moored his canoe was trifling, and quickly passed. Marguerite and Louis flew along the narrow toot path, readied the horc, and were in the arms of Meeum eh and his tierce companions.

MUTreaues ai.u resistance were alike vain. Resistance was made, with a manlv spirit, by vounc Louis; who drew a knife from

the girdle of one of the Indian

and attempted to plunge it in I i -mr t . K

oosom oi luecumen, wno u

roughly binding his wampum belt over Marguerite's mouth, to deaden the sound of her screams The uncle wrested the knife from

him, and smiled proudly on him i as if he recognized in the btave j boy. a scion from his own flock. "The Indians had two canoes; Margreiite was conveyed to one. L"uis to the other and both ca

noes were rowed into the Osuegatchie. and up the stream as ist as it was possible to impel them against the current of the river. "Nor a word nor a cry escaped the boy: he seemed intent on some purpose, and when the ca noe approached near the shore, he took off a military cap. he wore, and threw it so skilfully that it lodged where he meant it should, on the branch of a tree which projected over the water.

There was a long white feather

s.

rite was tilled with appreh.ensions ! in the cap. The Indians hacKoh-

nattiral enough at a time when

imminent dangers and bairhredth escapes were of every ua occur rence. She had sat in the tower -y and watched for the returning caj roe till the last beam of day had faded from the waters; the deep ening shadows of twilight played tricks with her imagination. Once she was started by the water-fowl, which, as it skimmed along the surface of the water, innged to her fancy the light ca noe impelled by her husband's vi

gorous arm again she heard the

ny arms, lie tried to disengage himself hut at the slightest movement, jMecumeh, though still sleeping, seemed conscious, and strain ed him eloper to him At last the strong sleep, that in the dept of the night steeps the senses in utter forget fulness, overnowered him; his arms relaxed their hold, and dropped beside him and left Louis free. lie rose cautiously, looked for

one instant on ti e Indians and assured himself they all slept profoundly lie then pos?esced himself of Meeumeh's knife, which lay at his feet and severed the

cord that bound his mother to the tree. Neither of them spoke a word but with the least possible sound they resumed the way by which they had come from the shore, Louis in the confidence, and Marguerite with the faint hope of reaching it before they were overtaken. "They had nearly attained the margin of the liver, where Louis meant to laueb one of the canoes

and dropdown the current, when the Indian yell resoundingthroucb the woods, struck on their ears. They weie missed, pursued and escape was impossible. Margue rite panic-struck, sunk, to the

ground could check the career of

Louis "On on. mother" he cried, "to the shore to the shore ' She rose and instinctively follow ed her hoy. The sound of pur-

Mui iu:ne nearer ano nearer.

They reached the shore, and

there beheld three canoes coming

swiftly up the river. Animated with hope. Louis screamed the watch-word of the garrison, and was answered by his father's voice. 4,The possibility of escape, and the certain approach of her husband, infused new life into Mar guerite uYour father cannot see us' she said as we statu! here in the shade of the trees hide yourself in that thicket, I will plunge

I into the water." Louis crouch

ed under the bushes, and was completely hidden by an over-

his father's tears of pride and joy were poured like rain upon ids

cheek-" SENTIMENTS OFTIIE AOE. "y'?r rxluj O Goal host thoit creafed men icith black and ydloxv skin?' It is indeed ridiculous to hear men of boasted talents profes-ing to admire the sacred maxims of liberty, the rights of man, and the holy lessons of gospel philosophy,

and at the same time denying the

iiuc iiius in a species oi creari n, because thev differ in the cf-cr

of the skin: and for the sake (A 3,

paltry reward, arrest and puni-li an unfortunate bcinc, for seekine: to obtain

that which they acknowledge to be his una-

l'Cinh!i- nvrht. N-EVTOT 'S.

served the boy's movement tnev

held up their oars for a moment, and seemed to consult whether they should return and remove the cat); but after a moment, they again dashed their oars in the wa

ter and proceeded forward. They i

continued rowing tor a lew miles,

and then landed; hid their canoes haiVuw crane vine, while his mn

I - - d ri f ---- - - -' behind some trees on the river's i ther aHv.iored a few ctpnc Intntlm

bank, and plunged into the woods I water and stood erect, where she ilpL&iClTom

with their prisoners. It seems k , could be distinctly seen A shout I vate life, manners, mstoms, amusements, &c. have been their intention to havfej from the canoes apprized her that i 0t7inThl gt incidentaU' returned to their canoes in the ! she was recognised and at the ! Vol. IV. Is appropriated to the analysis .1 . . . ' c

morning and tney nad not pro- same moment, the Indians who on cnpiur.

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leap of the heavy musaaloi)gi,ana,ceeded far from the shore, when , had now reached the shore, rent ; MmK. PuWi'-?