38 THE LIFE or

McKinney, “ the Indz'an’s friend,” on the shore of Lake
Superior.

“ On that day when our heroes lay loW—lay low-
On that day when our heroes lay low,

I fought by their side, and thought ere I died,

Just Vengeance to take on the foe—the foe——

Just vengeance to take on the foe.

“ On that day when our chieftains lay dead—lay dead—
On that day when our Chieftains lay dead,

I fought hand to hand, at the head of my band,

And here, on my breast, have I bled—have I bled——
And here, or; my breast, have I bled.

“Our chiefs shall return no more—no more—
Our chiefs shall return no more—

And their brothers in War who can’t show scar for scar,
Like Women their fates shall deplore—shall deplore—
Like women, their fates shall deplore.

‘Five winters in hunting we’ll spend— We’ll spend-
Five Winters in hunting We’1l spend-

Then our youths grown to men, to the war lead again,
And our days like our fathers’, we’ll end—We’ll end—-
And our days like our fathers’, we’11 end.”

CHAPTER IV.

OUR people believed much in omens. The barking

of foxes and of wolves, the bleating of the deer, the 

screeching of owls, bad luck in hunting, the flight of
uncommon kinds of birds, the moaning noise of a par-