the cub of the grizzly bear that I had brought all the way from Superior for her." "My brother's squaw's tongue was forked--the antelope's tongue is not forked, she cannot lie," said the chief. "Look here, chief; they are all alike. When they say they will have you, they mean they will if they don't get out of the notion of it." "My brother's heart is dark, and, looking through it, he sees nothing but gloom, where I see sunshine," returned the chief. "That is, I am to understand, you are in love, and uncle thinks it is an exploded fallacy," said Edward, laughing; for, in truth, he was in a merry mood, and his uncle's mishaps did not have a tendency to lessen it in the least. "It is nonsense, all nonsense," said the trapper. "Hist!" said the chief, laying his finger on his lip, "there is large game approaching!--there! I hear it again: have your arrows in readiness," he continued, after a moment's pause. "Deer, perhaps," said the trapper, "it comes in leaps; I hear it distinctly." "Yes, deer," said the chief, drawing his bow to his shoulder as a noble buck bounded in sight, with his tongue protruding from his mouth, and his eyes had a wild look of agony and terror, such as is only seen at a moment of despair. "Chased by a wolf! let the deer pass and shoot the pursuer," said the trapper; but, scarcely were the words spoken, when a giant form covered with hair, but bearing in form a semblance to humanity, came bounding after, clearing from ten to twelve feet at every bound. On he came, and, at the base of the knoll on which they stood, overtook his prey, and grasping it by the throat, with one hand dealt it a succession of furious blows on the head which knocked it down, when choking it until life was extinct, he stood upright contemplating his prey. They had instinctively dropped their arrows when they saw the pursuer; and Whirlwind motioning the others to keep still, glided on towards the singular creature, slipping from tree to tree until within a few rods of him, when, taking from beneath his