Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1869-09-01

in her broken English. But my grand
mother understood her meaning, and
patiently and plainly explained and made
clear to the red mans child, accustomed
and brought up to believe in the fixed dis
t~inction of tribe and race, the fulness and
freedom of the great salvation which
knows no limit of color or cline, people or
language. She made Lanoma understand
that the Lord of whom she spoke, could
hear the prayers of those who sought Him
in Indian camps, or under the forest trees,
as well as in the white mans church, and
earnestly counseled her to seek Him now
in the days of her youth.
Lanoma had always shown peculiar def
erence to my grandmother. 1t is one of
the creditable characteristics of the Indian
tribes, that they respect and reverence old
age but from that time the girl seemed
to become attached to her, either out of
gratitude for the truth she had learned
from her beside that early grave, or be-
aus the memory of her own mother
taught the Lonely Dove of the Hurons, to
sympathize with one who had lost a
daughter about her own age. With refine
ment of feeling scarcely to be expected
from a daughter of the rude and barba-
rous hunters of the wild, she would bring
garlands of forest flowers and wreathe
them round the maidstone when nobody
was near to see, and when the old people
went to sit by the grave, as they often did
in summer Sunday evenings, Lanoma
would steal away from us young folks and
sit there too. We also thought that the
girl began to understand better what she
heard US read in the Bible,-what my
father preached about in the church
where she often went with US, and always
sat quiet and attentive-and what was
said at our family worship, where she fire.
quently knelt among US.
Her goings and comings between our
house and the Indian camp, were free and
unchecked as those of her namesake, the
forest dove, might be, but they were not
unguarded. The chiefs only daughter.
said TO be her fathers heart, and with six
warrior brothers, had watchers over her
safety in the continual visits she chose to
make to the nearest of the white settlers.
At any hour of the day, but especially
towards evening, those of our household
whose walks or work happened to bring
them nearest to the forest, would perceive
sometimes an Indian hunter, sometimes a
wrinkled but wiry old squaw, moving
about in the shadow, and keeping a keen
eye on our premises and people. They
saw that Lanoma was well and kindly re-
eeived, and had neither risk nor ~hindrance
in her comings to Us ] believe the whole
tribe thought We had some extraordinary
attraction for her, and this, or it might be
the girls talk in our favor, at length in
duced her father to send mine a present of
tobacco, together with a lighted pipe, and
word that if the time were convenient for
the wise man of the white faces, the Great
Bear of the Hurons would come and smoke
with him on the following day. Coming
to smoke, in Indian p~arlance signifies a
friendly visit. and my father was we'll
pleased at the offer he thought it might
be the beginning of friendly intercourse
between Us and the Indians, and an open
ing for gospel light to shine upon the
heather darkness of the tribe. He ac-
cordingly ent a friendly and respectful
answer, and my mother put our house in
order for receiving the remarkable visitor.
~ The chief is a prince among his people"
she said, and it Is but Just and right that
We should honor his dignity"
Continued merit ceeSy