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 young man now said, in a low, dejected tone, with his eyes bent on the floor.

He then opened the box which he had taken from the fire, and laid the names out before her. Nattie repeated one after another, and spoke of her joy whea she first found that she could be useful to her captors in a way more congenial to her tastes than was drawing water, making broth, and tending the young papooses.

"I shall want to see them all, sometimes," she said; "even old Red Rose, and bright Black-bird, though they did not like me much; but Fox Heart was real good, and little Sweet Fern, too. As you are a friend of the old chief, perhaps you may see them some time. Gtve them the kindest regards of the pale-face girl, or Tulip, as the chieftain named me, and bid them good-bye for her. If they should ever come to my native village, perhaps, with my father, I may go and call on them. If I had not been a bad girl, running away from home alone in the dark evening,