A Little Maid of Ticonderoga

what Kashaqua says: that she will take m

ckly, and her sharp little eyes

with Kashaqua?" she said, a li

re sadly troubled. To offend the Indian woman would mean to make enemies of the tribe to which she belonged; and then neither their lives nor thei

out my shoes and dresses. I don't have to wait to get ready," and Faith ran to her mother eager for her consent, thinking it would be a fine th

from her face, and she nodded and smiled, grunting her satisfaction, and taking from one of he

ly at their fringed tops, and the pattern of a vine that ran from the

Aunt Priscilla," said Mr. Carew. "Do you kno

," responded Kashaqua. "Me take le

, Kashaqua,"

mill and get meal an'

le sigh of relief. For she had wondered how long it would be before they could get news t

that a little girl would need to wear to school and to church, there was, nevertheless, a good deal to do to prepare and put in order such things as she would take with her. Beside that Mrs. Carew meant to give the squaw a well-filled l

ht. While they assured each other that Faith would be perfectly safe, and that the Indian woman would defend the little girl from all danger, they could not but feel an unc

eath until she is here again, and tells me Faith

way from home, except for a day's visit at the house of some neighboring settler. She knew that when she got to Aunt Prissy's she would have a hat, probably like the one Esther Eldridge had worn, ribbons to tie back her yellow curls, shining leather shoes, and many things that she ha

er father whispered, seeing Faith's sad fa

of her baskets and swung it over her shoulder. The basket of luncheon also was

Faithie, dear," wh

father smilingly, and Faith managed to smile back, and to say good-bye br

knowing that would be a word of comfort to the whit

. At last Faith stopped suddenly and stood still, evi

th stories of the wild animals of the woods; of the traps she set along the streams to catch the martens and

y know their name, and come right to wigwam." Faith listened eagerly, and b

village, Kashaq

? Way back 'cross Moosel

e time," suggested Faith. B

crossed brooks, and carefully made their way over a swampy stretch of ground. Faith was very tired when

ith a little exclamation of wonder. Close beside the trail was a rough shelter made of the boughs of spruce and fir trees, and near

y live here?"

s of satisfaction. "White men going down the trail to big road to Shoreham sleep here," she

aqua repacked the basket with what remained of the food, and with a pleasant nod to

f out close beside Kashaqua, thinking that it was a wonderful thing to be so far from home,-nearly in sight of Lake Champlai

heard a queer scrambling sound behind her and sat up and looked around. For a moment she was too frightened to speak, for a brow

dragged Kashaqua off into the woods, and that he might tu

called hopelessly. "What s

and pushed it out of the bear's reach, and was now belaboring him with a stout piece of wood that she had seized from the pile by the shelter. As she hit the bear she called out strange words in the Indian tongue, whose meaning Faith could not imagine, but

r papooses tamed?" exclaimed Faith, re

same time muttering word

friends," she explained to Fai

ature. It seemed to the little girl that the bear understood every word Kashaqua uttered;

opposite shore. For a moment she forgot Nooski and Kashaqua, and stood looking at the sparkling waters and listening to the same sound of "Chiming Waters" that had made the ear

in the underbrush, and the light craft now rested on the waters of the lake. The baskets and b

ed Faith, looking abo

ange of mountains which they had left

ful dream. As Kashaqua with swift strokes of her paddle sent the canoe over the water Faith sat silent, with eyes fixed on the looming

rt walk across a field they reached a broad, well-traveled road. "'Most to Philip Scott's house,