Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-05-31

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people, promised green bird-the
emblem Of his tribe-in sacrifice to
the tutelar divinity of Estate, If he
| could only be permitted to overcome
the potent enchanter who had thus
dazzled his aim and blunted his ar
rows. He had hardly uttered this
VOW when he beheld the insolent
deer mincingly grazing upon beau
tiful tuft Of long grass in the valley,
just below the ledge of rock upon
| which he stood. Without more ado,
he pressed onward to bring him
within fair range of his arrows, lit
tie doubling at the moment that the
Good Spirit had heard his prayer and
had granted his desire. But, in his
hurry, leaping too hastily forward,
and with eyes fixed only upon his
proposed victim, his foot was caught
by the smallest stump in the world,
and the very next moment found him
and into the valley, within few
PAGES of the deer, who made off with
the utmost composure, gazing back
as he did so, in the eyes of the
wounded hunter, for all the world as
if he enjoyed the sport nightly.
Nagoochit, as he saw this, gravely
concluded that he had fallen a victim
to the wiles Of the Occony wizard,
and looked confidently to see half a
score OF Occonies upon him, taking
him at a vantage. Like a brave war
rior, however, he did not despond,
but, determining to gather up his
loins for battle and the torture, he
sought to rise and put himself in a
state OF preparation. What, how
ever, was his horror, to find him
self utterly unable to move! His
leg had been broken in the fall, and
he was covered with bruises from
head to foot.
"Nagoochie gave himself up for
lost. but he had scarcely done so.
! when he heard voice--the sweet
est, he thought, he had ever heard
in his life-singing a wild, pleasant
song, such as the Occonies love,
which, ingeniously enough, summed
up the sundry reasons why the
mouth, and not the eyes, had been
endowed with the faculty of eating.
These reasons were many, but the
last is quite enough for us. Accord
ing to the song, had the eyes. and
not the mouth, been employed for
this purpose, there would soon be a
famine in the land, for of all glut-
tons, the eyes are the greatest. Ma
goochie groaned aloud as he heard
the song, the latter portion of which
| completely indicated the cause OF his
present misfortune. 1t was, indeed,
the gluttony of the eyes which. had
broken his leg. This sort Of allie
CORY the Indians are fond Of, and Jo-
cassee knew all their legends. Ger
tainly, thought Nagodchie, though
his leg panied him wofully at the
time, certainly | never heard such
sweet music, and such a voice The
singer advanced as she sung, and
almost stumbled over him.
"'Who are you?' she asked timid-
ly. neither retreating nor advancing; /;
and, as the wounded man looked into
her face, he blessed the Occony wiz
ard, by whose management he deem
ed his leg to have been broken.
'Look!' was the reply Of the
young warrior, throwing aside the
bearskin which covered his BOSOM
look, girl of Occony! It's the totem
Of a chief and the green bird
stamped upon his left breast, as the
badge Of his tribe, showed him a
warrior OF Estate, and something of
an enemy. But his eyes had no
enmty-and then the broken leg!
Jocassee was gentle maiden, and
her heart melted with the condition
Of the warrior. She made him a
sweet promise in very pretty Ian
guage, and with the very same voice
the music of which was so delicious;
and then, with the feetness OF a
Young doe. she went off to bring him
succOr
Chapter III.