Lower coast gazette., 1913-12-20
The old squire was greatly touched,
and much ashamed of his and grand

The old squire was greatly touched,
and much ashamed of his and grand
mothers suspicious. -
But, Molly-ocket, you told us that
you have a son at st. Francis. You
must give this to him." he said.
"Ah-h-h!!" She cried, and a sudden
look Of repulsion hardened her face.
mo good man. Drink, 'dlin1s, dlink!
Gamble, gamble, gamble. Ma, ma,
when me die me give you, Joe"
Muttering some chant in the Indian
tongue, she buried the Kettle again.
and bade him carefully observe the
place.
Now. we go back" she said. me die
pretty soon, Joe. Then you come get
,uRg: ,m9Pey.". ,.
they; had come, and there the old
squiasYy showed him a silver crown
piece with a large square hole in the
middle of it. when me send you
this, then you go get. 'um kettle" she
said. me dead then"
He tried for some time to persuade
her to go home with him to the farm;
but she merely said, "Na, na," and he
finally left her sitting under the over;
hang of the crag, swaddled up in that
bearskin.. i.
1t was nearly three in the morning
when her cached home, to find grand
mother still sitting up, in a state of
fearful anxiety, and about to summon
the neighbors for a search expedition.
In consequence of this long trip by
night, the old squire was late in going
back to dig knees the next day. Molly;
ccket had left her "seat" under shEs
r9ck, and, indeed, they never saw her
again. She was supposed to have gon1s
to Megantic Lake or st. Francis.
The winter passed; then one day'in
May. when grandmother had been out
in the field where the old squire was
at work, she found, or. returning to the
house, that English silver piece With
the square hole in the middle on the
table in the sitting room. How it got
there they never, knew; they suppose
that .ss9qgpe Indian messenger brought
it. +
Ruth, Molly-ocket is dead!" the old
squire exclaimed, when grandmother
showed, IT to. him at t%siupper-time.
He deemed it almost a duty to go
afteE. the. kettle, and did 80 the next
day. It was still there, buried in the
lgraysl under the heavy stone. He
brought it home i. tie evening. and
he and grandmother poured the money
Ilout on the kitchen table. 1t was hest
old worn, furnished English and
French silver, and some of the coins
would now be reckoned valuable as
curiosities. OF the gold, besides Eng
fish sovereigns and several French
louis. d'ors, there were a number of
Spanish and Portuguese doubloons.
How had Molly-ocket come by it ALL?
Perhaps it was by selling charms
Ito her kinsfolk; or it may have been
her tribal dowry, to. which she added
bit by bit. Is. 1.
The old squire never told us the'ex-
Act amount OF money in the kettle, but
there was enough to buy four shares
In. the;old. Casco Bank at Portland,
Maine, then yielding six per cent in
terest;; and every year he sent the in
come, amounting to more than a. hun
dred dollars, to Father Lyonais at Que
bec,-a. most worthy man,-who had it
distributed as.an annuity to the rem
niant of the st. Francis Indians, in the
form. of Blankets, bacon, tea, and SO
forth. The men were Incorporate and
shiftless; to give them the money out
right would have done them harm in
stead of good.
Afterward-in 1SS6-the entire sum
was transferred to Father Lyonais, to
be expended as seemed best for these
helpless and degenerate Indians. And
that vas the sstory-so far as we ever
knew. it-of old Molly-ocket's copper
kettle s.-..sthe kettle of the singing
bird.'-Youth's. Companion.
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