Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1912-10-17

had taken possession Of her late
dwelling.
.One cannot tell. Savages are al
ways distrustful and cautious
when on a war-path; and these
seem to be seeming about like SO
many hounds which are nosing for
a trail. They are now gathering
sticks to light fire, which is bet
ter than burning the chiente."
"That they will not be likely to
do until they have no further need
of it. Tell me, Bourbon, do any go
near the thicket of alders where
We have hidden our goods?"
''Not as yet; though there is a
sudden movement and many loud
yells among .themw
Heaven send that it may not be
at having discovered anything We
have forgotten. The sight of even
a lost dipper or cup would set
them bloodhounds on our path, as
sure as We are white and they are
savagesw
LAS / live, they scent the whis-
key There is a rush toward, and
a pow-wow in and about the
shed-yes, of a certainty they
smell the liquor Some of it has
escaped in rolling down the hill,
and fhaip IN
pass over fragrance that to them
equals that of roses. Well, let them
scent as they may-even an Injin
does not get drunk through his
nose"
"You are quite right, Bourbon:
but is not this a most unhappy
whiskey can hardly be there with
out their seeing it did not grow in
the woods of itself, like an oak or
beech?"'
~ understand you, Margery, and
there is good sense in what you
say. They will never think the
liquor grew there, like black
Derry or a chestnut, though the
place is called Whiskey Centre y
1T is hard enough to know that
family has deserved such a
name, without being reminded of
it by those that call themselves
friends" answered the girl point
edly, after pause of near a
minute, though she spoke in sor-
row rather than in anger.
In an instant the bee-hunter was
at pretty Margery's side, making
his peace by Jealous apologies and
winning protestations of respect
and concern. The mortified girl
was soon appeased; and after con-
sulting together for a minute,
they went to the canoe to COM
municate to the husband and wife
what they had seen.
"The whiskey after all is likely
TO prove our worst enemy" said
the bee-hunter as he approached.
1T would seem that in moving the
barrels some of the liquor had
escaped, and the nose of an lnjin
is too quick for the odor it leaves
not to scent it,"
"Much good may it do them,'
growled Gershom; sthey've lost
me that whiskey, and let them
long for it without gettin' any as
punishment for the same. My
FORUM would have been made
could l only have got them two
barrels as far as Fort Dearborn
before the troops movedw
''The barrels might have been
got there, certainly" answered lie
Bourbon, SO much provoked at the
mans regrets for the destroyer
which had already come so near to
bringing want and ruin on him
self and family, as momentarily to
forget his recent scene with pref
ty Margery; "but whether any
thing would have been in them is
another question. One of those l
rolled to the brow of the hill was
half empty as it was"
''Gershom is SO trubled with the
ague, if he don't take stimulants,
in this new country" put in the
wife, in the apologize manner in
which woman struggles to conceal
the failings of him she loves. "As
for the whiskey, l don't grudge
that in the least; for it's a poor
way of getting rich to be selling
it to soldiers, who want all the
reason liquor has left 'em, and
more too. Still Gershom needs Bit
tiers and aught not to have every
drop he has taken thrown into
his face"
By this time lie Bourbon was
again sensible of his mistake, and
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