Year: 1861

N0o, 'hep, ict uS PrePurt snelter.
We can SO weave these boughs, as to form
q very respectable house for the present.
Out with your hatchet man, and to work"


" Suppose make fire, and roast this
piece of venison, We shall be hungry
when our task is DONE"


" Always provide for the appetite =
We'll, be it SO. BE careful, however, that
yos do not let your fire get among the dry
branches, else we shall have a general
oonhagration."


"' We shall postpone such pyrotcchnic
disturbance till the fourth of the coming
month";


In conversation like to this passed two
or three hours, during which the brothers
worked industriousy, aud found that they
had, when the venison was ready for
them, provided y very comfortable cabin.


{" will just dip my cup in the stream
there" said Harry, "and try the properties
of this water; hold on ! put up your knife
until | return. We must start fair 1
object to your cutting off the finest pieces
in advance"


NAY, you need not indulge any alarm
you shall have the first cut; hurry, then,
for l am furnishing"


Harry sprang down the bank, and bent
over the swift current. As he was in the
act Of dipping up the water, an arrow
from some unseen bow pierced his arm
and pinned it to his side. A sudden faint
ness seemed to seize upon him, yet with
the other hand he scoopcd up the liquid
and commenced the ascent. But ere he
could reach the top of tue bluff he sank
exhausted upon the sward. Had not the
large trunk of tree interviewed, he would
undoubtedly have rolled down the noun
tain again.


"This cursed arrow must be poisoned"
he thought, "for can feel its influence
stealing through my system, numbing
and paralyzing my every faculty. If l
could but make Barton hear What ho
brother Barton !"


So rapid had been the action Of the
irritating agent, wherewith the weapon
had been charged, that his voice seemed
to have become affected, and he could do
little more than whisper. Meanwhile,
Barton had become somewhat annoyed at
his brothers absence. He had half
mind to commence an attack upon the
venEon which was fast growing cold, but
he bethought him that he had better look
down upon the river, to see what detained
the youngster. He stood upon the edge
of the bluff, but as far as he could see
there were no signs of the missing brother.
Barton now grew anxious, he could form
no satisfactory reason for his disappear
anoe. There could be but one solution of
the mystery; the Dccotahs must have been
watching them, and succeeded in captur-
ing Harry This conclusion arrived at,
he turned to look far up the river, where
rose upon the still air a tall column of
smoke that told him he was near some
Indian encampment.


Yes, it must be !" be muttcrcd, as
an agony of feeling stole across his soul,
4" My brother has been made, thus early
in his frontier experience, prisoner by
these cursed savagos. But he shall be
rescued, or if too late for that, avenged !"


Without further delay he unhitched his
horse from the limb to which it had bOen
fastened while quietly grazing, replaced
his saddle, examined the priming of his
rife, and vaulted upon his animal.


Now, Barbary," he almost shouted,
"you must bear your part nobly in this
enterprise, We must bring back my
brother, or return not at ALL"


As the sounds of footsteps died in the
distance, and an unbrokcn silence brooded
once more over the spot, there shot from
the opposite bank light canoe propelled
, by the practical hand of young and
beautiful forest maiden. With the ra-
pidity of lightning it sped across the wa
; ters and touched at the very spot where
. Harry had received his wound. As it
grazed the beach the girl sprang lightly
from it, and ran swiftly up the bank to
, where the young man had fallen. She
arrived just in time to see him stretch
himself out with an agony of pain, throw
I his arms wildly above his head and sink
almost ipsepsible again. She bent over
. him and in sweet whisper said
! " Come with me the warriors arrow
b has wounded the white bird, who few to
0 our forests for home but Atawahta will