Show one good word for him the long island aborigines made it a practice not to bury one of their number until someone had spoken n good word concerning the deceased one time a very bad old redskin went tile the way of all flesh and tile the members of the tribe gathered gatli ered to lay him a way away it was a silent assemblage not a work was spoken to the credit of the dead man lower and lower sank the sun and darkness was almost really ready to descend when one old burli buck walked up tip to where the body lay and succinctly remarked ile he was a devil of a hand at skinning eels or its equivalent in the long island indian language that was considered sufficient chent to permit the burial to proc proceed find and the hie bad old indian was laid away no not wholly unwept and 10 unsung |