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"There we stayed in the bushes," said Wenonah, "until nearly night, and then they made us go back again with them in the same way to the same place.
The chief tried to laugh away her fancies and comforted her as well as he might, then leading her to the wigwam he urged her to sleep. Next day is the Virgins' Feast and Wenonah is among those who sit in the ring, dressed in their gayest.
Again Roddy, who was now nestling in his mother's arms, spoke up and said: "I thought it was somebody saying to me, `Who, who, who! and I said, `We are Roddy and Wenonah Ross, and we are lost. "Then, when it called again, it only said: "`Oo! oo! oo! So then we knew what it was, as we had often heard it at night here at home."
The thrilling adventures and escape of Wenonah and Roderick were, of course, the great sensations that were most talked about for many a day. Children have wonderful recuperative powers, and so the two little ones recovered from the effects of their strange mishaps long before Mr and Mrs Ross or even Minnehaha did. But time is a great healer, and soon all were well and in good spirits again.
"But they were so greedy; they were worse than little piggies," said little Roderick; "they made such funny little noises all the time they were eating." "But," continued Wenonah, "that sound of theirs seemed to call the old bears, that we had not yet seen. They came rushing through the bushes, and we were so frightened we could not even cry out or let go of our baskets.
"This voice of whatever it was seemed to frighten the bears, and so off they started," said Wenonah, "and they made us go along with them. We had to go; for if we stopped, or tried to go some other way, they growled at us, and pushed us with their noses, and so we had to go with them. Soon they came out of the bushes and crossed over the sand, and went up on the other side into the dark woods.
Wenonah was placed in charge of his family on the voyage, and at the journey's end was sent to a first-class school, called "The Nest." Here at Mr Ross's expense she was kept for several years, until she was not only highly educated as a student, but loving, interested ladies taught her, in their kindness, the things essential for a good housekeeper to know.
Therefore, if any one should brutally ask what I was doing the other day dangling down Chestnut Street toward the river, I should have to reply, "Looking for the Wenonah." The Wenonah, you will immediately conclude, is a moving picture theater. But be patient a moment. Lower Chestnut Street is a delightful place for one who does not get down there very often.
If Wenonah and Roderick had been pure white children, brought up in a civilised land with all the ignorance incident to such regions, they would have been found long ere this; but their part Indian blood and thorough training in that wild north land was now really to them a misfortune first, because they had the strength and training to push on with such wonderful speed and endurance; again, it also made them wary and cunning, and so fearful of being tracked by wild beasts or hostile Indians that they carefully, but rapidly, moved along in a way that children not brought up in such a land would never have dreamed of.
The musical and expressive Indian names of Minnehaha and Wenonah had been given to the two bright, winsome little girls in the household, while the wee brother was called by the old Scottish name of Roderick.
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