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“ There could be no better "asylum" for one of them than the lodge of a wise old brave like Send Warning.
"No," said Murray, after a moment of silence. "Only one young squaw in camp for me. The great chief must let me have Rita."
Many Bears was as nearly startled as an Indian chief could be by this sudden and daring proposal. He shook his head. Only a chief who could bring rich presents could expect to buy the daughter of a great man like Many Bears. Something far beyond the power of a seemingly poor warrior like Send Warning. ”

“ Look at those enormous lips standing up. The whale drops his lips until they lie flat, and then, swimming slowly along, the small molluscous animals on which he lives drift into his mouth. When he thinks he has enough for a mouthful, he raises his lips, and with his great tongue forces out the water between the plates of bone, through the mat of fibres. The mollusca are caught on the fringe, licked off, and swallowed. Seems like small food for such great animals, perhaps, but this is their mode of living."
FRONT VIEW OF THE MOUTH.
"Is this one a right-whale, Uncle Horace?" ”

“ A fine blood-hound thrust its cold nose against Harry's cheek, a red Irish setter licked his hand, and a pair of white bull-dogs, by clumsy antics and friendly nudgings, tried to make his acquaintance, while a number of bull-terriers, Newfoundland, and pointer pups engaged in a rough-and-tumble play that was very amusing.
In a shed at one corner of the yard the boys spied a young man preparing the dogs' supper. Dick whispered, "There'll be fun by-and-by." ”

“ He was a small boy, not more than eight years old, and hardly as large as a boy of six should be; he walked on crutches because of his deformed legs, which hung withered and almost useless, barely capable of supporting his slight weight.
"Now, what do you want?" asked Bob, in an angry tone.
"I don't want anything," was the mild reply, as the cripple halted just outside the shade, as if not daring to come any farther until invited. "I heard you was goin' to get up a circus, an' I thought perhaps you'd let me watch you, 'cause I wouldn't bother you any." ”

“ Ni-ha-be had never seen so much of the pale-faces before, and Rita tried again and again to persuade her to change her mind, but on the very last morning of all she resolutely responded: "No, Rita, you are all pale-face. All over. Head and heart both belong with white friends. Feel happy. Ni-ha-be only little Indian girl here. Out there on plains, among mountains, Ni-ha-be is the daughter of a great chief. She is an Apache." ”

“ Suppose chief bring fifty ponies?"
"Good," said Murray. "Go on."
"Fifty new blanket?"
"Good. All right."
"Five new gun. Fifty knife. Much heap powder. Big roll cloth for squaws. What say?"
"Good. All right."
"Much pistol too. Suppose chief think of something more?"
"All right. Send Warning give it all."
"Ugh! No got 'em. No find 'em. Send Warning laugh at chief. Bad."
There was an offended look in his eyes, but Murray laid his hand on his arm, saying:
"Listen. Send Warning is white. He is a great man among his own people. He can give heap to chief. Can't find all here. Go to fort. ”

“ You have learned from Captain Edwards of the instruments that are used to kill them—a harpoon and a lance. When the whale-boat comes near enough to the whale, the harpoon, to which a long rope is fastened, is thrown into him. The barb on the harpoon prevents its being pulled out, and the poor whale swims off, dragging the boat by the rope. When he becomes tired, the boat is drawn up, and he is killed with a thrust of the lance. Sometimes the blow of the harpoon kills him, but not often. ”

“ Jollytarre. "They make a raid into another tribe, kill a man, and back they come with it as an evidence of their courage and skill. The more heads a man takes, the greater distinction he attains in his tribe. Nothing is thought of him by his own people until he chops off a head."
Tom looked again at the string of heads, and exclaimed, "Faugh! it makes me ill. I almost wish I hadn't come."
But disagreeable things are short-lived in a boy's mind. The head-hunters and their ghastly trophies faded away as he asked questions upon questions about Borneo, on his way back to the ship. ”

“ When we do not go to school, my brother Elmar and I and some more boys and girls who live near by go over to my grandpa's an evening or two in every week, and grandma teaches us. I like to study geography especially. My brother Elmar is older than I, and we take Harper's Young People together. When we meet at grandpa's, Elmar and I take our Young People along, so that the rest of the children who go can hear the nice stories in it, and after lessons are recited, grandma reads to us all. ”

“ THE HEAD-HUNTERS OF BORNEO.
Tom stood transfixed in mute, horrified astonishment in front of the nearest hut. Its steep projecting roof had fallen somewhat into decay; the thatching in some places had fallen quite off. Before the doorway a group of natives were gathered, attracted by the strangers. They stared at the strangers, who in turn stared back with equal curiosity. Suspended across the doorway was a string of human heads—yes, horrible to relate—of human heads in different states of decomposition. "He great head-hunter," said the interpreter, pointing to the owner of the hut. ”

“ You see always in pictures a column of water represented; that is all foolishness. There is no such thing; there is a puff of spray, and nothing more."
"I should think it was a hard way to live, Uncle Horace, to have to come up to the surface every time I wanted to breathe."
"Perhaps the whale does not think so, Bennie. He comes to the surface as naturally as you open your mouth. All his motion is made by the strokes of his tail, which the whalemen call his 'flukes.' Now look at this drawing of his flukes. It is shaped, you see, somewhat like a fish's tail, but then it is not placed like one. ”

“ Fee, the mate, who was in the bow of one of the boats, ready with harpoon in hand, hurled it in deep just below where the shoulder-blade would be. This astonished the whale, and it dived at once, splashing the water all around, and staving in the side of the boat with one of its flukes. The water was shallow, though, and the fish soon came up again to spout, and then started to run up the coast at the rate of sixty miles an hour. This was about ten o'clock in the morning. They had also thrown another harpoon into the fish, and the boat was being towed almost alongside, near the tail. ”

“ I am an Apache, and I will go with my father."
Many Bears was listening. "Send Warning hear what young squaw say? All Apaches say, good. She will stay with her own people."
Murray and Steve were anxious to begin their return to civilization, but it would be several days before a "train" would go with an escort, and they did not care to run any further risks. So the "farewell" was spread over sufficient time to make all sorts of explanations and promises, and Rita's mind became so full of dreams of her new life that she could easily give up the old one. ”

“ Major Norris was an experienced "Indian fighter," and just the man to be in command of such a post, for the reason that he had learned how much cheaper it was to have the red men as friends than as enemies. He sent word at once to Many Bears and a number of other "great chiefs" that Send Warning was also a "great chief," and that proper honor must be shown him by his pale-face friends on so great an occasion.
It was quite a procession that marched out of the fort barracks with Rita on the day appointed. ”

“ Still, it was a delicate piece of business, and Murray went at it very carefully.
That afternoon, as they were riding along, Many Bears again remarked to him that he would be better off among his Apache friends than anywhere else. "Have lodge. Have squaw. Be chief a little. Be great brave."
"Got good lodge now."
"Yes, but lodge empty. Want squaw."
"Send Warning is old. No child. Rather have daughter. He has taken the Knotted Cord for a son. All he needs now is a young squaw."
"Ugh! Good. All Apaches say Send Warning is wise. Know what he likes best. Buy young squaw. Braves get killed in fight. ”

“ The cripple turned as Toby spoke, and the look which came into his face went right to the heart of the boy, who for ten long weeks had known what it was to be almost without a friend.
"I don't see what you want him 'round here for," said Bob, petulantly, as Abner seated himself by Toby's side, thoroughly exhausted by his long walk. "He can't do nothin'; an' if he could, we don't want no fellers from the poor-farm mixed up with the show."
"It don't make any difference if he does live to the poor-farm," said Toby, as he put his little brown hand on Abner's thin fingers. ”

“ I have a black cat which I call Pussy. I play with her, and I like her ever so much. I have ten dolls, and mamma says some of them are dilapidated. My oldest doll is a rag doll, which my aunt gave me when I was six months old. We live in Sioux River Valley, and the river is full of trout. I caught one in a little brook that runs past the door. A great many people come here in the summer to fish. There are some very large hills, all around us, covered with pine-trees, and pretty both in summer and winter. ”

“ Four faces brightened visibly as Uncle Fritz pronounced it a case of distemper, and not hydrophobia, and recommended removal to the hospital.
"The hospital!" exclaimed both boys in wonder.
"Yes, children; and the sooner, the more hope for his recovery. By-the-way, Maria, if you have a covered basket, a piece of carpet, and Pepper's basin ready, we'll get him off at once."
The boys were wild with excitement. Pepper would not be shot after all; he was going to be cured. ”

“ My papa gave me Harper's Young People for a birthday present. I like it very much indeed. L. Pearlie S. said she had a hen that killed all but the black ones in her brood. Mamma says she once had a hen that did not like black chickens, so she tried to kill all she saw in her brood, and others too. I like chickens very much. I have twenty-one chickens—nine hens, one rooster, and eleven little chicks. One year I had thirty-eight chickens, two turkeys, and four Pintados.
I don't see how any one can help liking sweet, gentle, loving cats. I have a cat nearly four years old. She can't do any tricks ”

“ People generally have such incorrect ideas concerning them that I think it is really worth while to give you some instruction, and at all events to start you right, for we shall have time now to make a start, and no more. In the first place, Bennie, always remember a whale is not a fish, and in no way allied to fishes."
"Why, Uncle Horace! What do you mean? Not a fish? I am sure I have read about whale-fishing, and I know they live in the water like fish."
"There is where you are wrong, Ben. They live in the water, but not like fish. Fish breathe under water, and die if taken out of it ”

“ How Girls may Entertain each Other.—The idea that in order to entertain company it is necessary to go to a great deal of trouble and expense prevents many young people from really enjoying themselves together. The other day I was present when Florilla asked her mother for permission to invite a number of her girl friends to a birthday party. ”

“ But the right-whale is an arctic species, and is larger, being sometimes sixty-five feet long; this species is, I think, never over fifty, and lives in the Atlantic Ocean, not the arctic."
"Is sixty-five feet as long as any whales grow?"
"Oh no. Some of the fin-backs have been measured which were one hundred and ten feet long, and I am sure I have seen them as long as that. Whalemen, however, seldom kill them, for they make but little oil, and they fight sometimes very fiercely when they are attacked."
"But isn't it strange, Uncle Horace, that such monstrous animals can be killed. ”

“ The tail of a fish always has its flat sides 'up and down,' so that when he strikes with it he swims ahead or to either side as he chooses, and if he wishes to come to the surface, he has to turn his tail in order to do it. ”

“ His name was Dick. I have a boy doll. He was dressed in a little black velvet suit when I got him; I named him George. I think Harper's Young People is the nicest little paper I ever had. My brother Willie has a wagon, and he takes me out riding every day; but the wagon is broken now, and he can not take me. I do wish Jimmy Brown would write some more funny pieces; I like to read them so much! I would like to get acquainted with him. We used to have three white rabbits, but a stray cat caught them.
Lena W.
Brother Willie must get the wagon mended. ”

“ We have a dog too, a setter, and my brother Charlie Ross, who is now at school in Rhode Island, named him Ivan the Terrible. He can shut the door, walk on his hind-legs, sit up and beg, and can jump a stick ever so high, and only has to be told a few times. ”

“ During the dinner Toby told of the difficulty he had had in getting his partners to consent to Abner's being one of the company, and Aunt Olive, who had shown considerable interest in the circus scheme, said:
"Why don't you let him keep a stand, and then he can make some money for himself. I will bake him a lot of doughnuts and ginger-snaps, and your uncle Dan'l will lend him money enough to buy lemons an' sugar. It will be a deal better than to have Nahum Baker there with his pies that are as heavy as lead, an' doughnuts that have soaked up all the fat in the pan." ”