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Then, to their intense relief, four chiefs advanced deliberately, holding aloft two calumets, or peace-pipes. They wore French cloth, from which it was evident that they traded with the French. These people proved to belong to the great Illinois tribe, the very people some of whom had met Marquette at his mission-station and had begged him, as he says, "to bring them the word of God."
Again and again the dream-music drifted out on the air. The plain was now filled with peace-pipes. When the last blended tones died away, the whole tribe were seated on the long plateau, and every old warrior was smoking a pipe of peace. Gretchen saw that her spirit, through the violin, had calmed the sea. She was sure now that she had rightly read her mission in life.
She had spiritual sight, ears, and senses a new consciousness of Divine happiness. Her purpose became strong to live for the soul alone, and she sung, over and over again, amid the silence of the peace-pipes and the rising of those puffs of smoke in the silver illumination of the high moon "In the deserts let me labor, On the mountains let me tell."
I wonder it is not introduced into English cookery, it makes such a pretty-coloured gravy. While smoking our peace-pipes after supper, one of the keepers came in to announce the welcome fact that it was snowing hard; fresh-lain snow would materially increase our chances of tracking the wild-boar.
Amid the scene of glimmering peace-pipes, a heavenly presence seemed near her. She had broken the traditions of centuries by the sympathetic thrill of four simple strings. She felt that Von Weber was there in spirit, and Schumann. She felt that her father's soul was near her; but, more than all, she felt that she was doing the work of the Great Commission.
When the red men had indulged to satiety in tobacco-smoke from their peace-pipes, and in what they love still better their peculiar metaphoric rhodomontade, which, beginning with the celestial bodies, and coursing downward over the grandest sublunary objects, always managed to alight at last on their "Great Father," Polk, and the tenderness with which his affectionate red children regarded him.
Then they stood forth in full view, and shouted, to attract attention. There was great commotion in the village. The inmates swarmed out of their huts, and four of their chief men presently came forward to meet the strangers, advancing very deliberately, and holding up toward the sun two calumets, or peace-pipes, decorated with feathers.
Then there were a few sharp, discordant strains, and then the Traumerei lifted its spirit-wings of music on the air. The murmurs ceased. The plain grew still. "Romance" followed, and then the haunting strain of the Traumerei rose again. It ceased. Lights began to glimmer here and there. Peace-pipes were being lighted. "You have saved your people," said Umatilla. "Play it again."
"But they won't any of 'em be out now, will they?" asked Bunny. "Oh, the Indians may be sitting outside their cabins, smoking their pipes," said Tom. "Oh, that'll be all right," observed Bunny. "They'll be peace-pipes and they won't hurt us." "Of course not," laughed Tom.
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