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"Me like very much," was the reply. "Me glad find father, brother. All good." He paused a moment, and then added, "A-lee-lah's father, mother be dead. A-lee-lah alone. A-lee-lah did say not go. Me promise come back soon." Mr. Wharton was silent. He was thinking what it was best to say. After waiting a little, William said, "Father, me not remember what is English for squaw." "Woman," replied Mr.
Wharton put his hand gently on her head, and said, "We will love you, my daughter." William translated the phrase to her, heaved a sigh, which seemed a safety-valve for too much happiness, and replied, "Me thank father, brother, sister, all." And A-lee-lah said, "Me tank," as her mother had said, in years long gone by.
The moment he saw it, he exclaimed, "Haha! A-lee-lah show me Guinea-peas. Her say me give she." "Then you know Wik-a-nee?" said his father, in an inquiring tone. The wanderer had acquired the gravity of the Indians. He never laughed, and rarely smiled. But a broad smile lighted up his frank countenance, as he answered, "Me know A-lee-lah very well. She not Wik-a-nee now."
William translated this to his simple wife, who said, "Aunt Mary good. Me tank." Mr. Wharton happened to come in, and he kissed the brown forehead, saying "Father likes to have A-lee-lah wear her hair so." The conquest was complete. Henceforth, the large, lambent eyes shone in their moonlight beauty without any overhanging cloud.
This was manifested in many childlike ways, which were extremely winning, though they were sometimes well calculated to excite a smile. As years passed on, they both learned to read and write English very well. William worked industriously on his farm, though he never lost his predilection for hunting. A-lee-lah became almost as skilful at her needle as she was at weaving baskets and wampum.
William seemed perplexed by this remark; but he comprehended in part, and said, "Me see into Spirit-Land." When asked why he had not started in search of his mother then, he replied, "A-lee-lah's father, mother die. A-lee-lah say not go. Miles big many. Me not know the trail. But Indians go hunt fur. Me go. Me sleep. Me dream mother come, say go home. Me ask where mother? Charles come.
The universal Yankee nation is a self-elected Investigating Committee, which never adjourns its sessions. This is amusing, and perhaps edifying, to their own inquiring minds; but William and A-lee-lah had Indian ideas of natural politeness, which made them regard such invasions as a breach of good manners.
"She is handsome as a wild tulip." "Bright as the torch-flower of the prairies," added Uncle George. When William made these compliments intelligible to A-lee-lah, she maintained her customary Indian composure of manner, but her brown cheeks glowed like an amber-colored bottle of claret in the sunshine.
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