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Show canoe sped nice an arrow across the ruooth waters. Sudduly, w eu. In the middle of the lake,' the strong minded woman determined to prove to these simple folk the folly of their belief. So ihe lifted up her voice in a wild cry that voke every :ho of the hills. The Indians were filled with consternation. consterna-tion. They uttered no word, but, straining strain-ing every nerve, rowed on lu frowning silence. They reached the shore in safety, and the woman triumphed; but he Mohawk chief looked upon her in iOorn. "The Great Spirit is merciful," he said; "he knows that the whitn woman wo-man cannot hold her peace." Vuth's Companion. Bercifol. The Indians believe t1 t If thestillnesi over the waters of a e be broken b; any careless word the spirits of the plac will be offended. In the days of the earlv settlers, we are told, a white woman had'occadon to cross Lake Saratoga, and the Judiaiis, who were to row her across, wan. 1 her of the danger that one rash word alight bring; but of course, being a white woixan, she was superior to all juch euperstrioua notions. It waa a calm, cloudless day. na the |