faith. She abandoned the false gods of her fathers, and found true and
lasting peace in the cross of Jesus Christ.

THE FLIGHT

OF

THE KATAHBA CHIEF.

Go now to Greece,
Or Rome--to Albion's sea-girt isle--to Gaul,
Ancient or modern--to the fiery realm
Of Turk or Arab--to the ice-bound holds
Of Alaric and Attila--and find,
If find thou canst, a nobler race of men--
More firm, more brave, more true--swifter of foot,
Or readier in action.

THE FLIGHT OF THE KATAHBA CHIEF.

Go not to the chase, my brave hunter, to-day,
There's a mist o'er the sun--there's a snare in the way;
Manitto revealed last night in my dream
A deep dark shadow o'erhanging the stream;
The deer, from his thicket, sprung out in thy path--
Then he changed to a tiger, and roared in his wrath--
Then the warrior hunter, so fearless and brave,
Was driven away, like a captive slave;
Then the smoke rolled up, and the flames curled high,
And the forest rung with the foeman's cry;
Then the wind swept by with a desolate wail--
The avenger of blood was on thy trail;--
Minaree looked out at the cabin door,
But her bold brave hunter returned no more.
Go not to the chase, my brave hunter, to-day,
There's a mist o'er the sun--there's a snare in the way.

So, in sweetly plaintive strains, chanted the beautiful young bride of a
Katahba chief, as she prepared his frugal morning meal, while he was
busying himself in examining the string of his bow, replenishing his
quiver with straight polished shafts, and renewing the edge of his
trusty hatchet.

In all the forest homes of the native tribes, there was not a fairer
flower than Minaree, the loved and devoted wife of the brave
Ash-te-o-lah. The only daughter of a chief of the Wateree tribe, which
was one branch of the great family of the Katahbas, she inherited the
spirit and pride of her father, with all the simple beauty, and
unsophisticated womanly tenderness of her mother. She was the idol of
Ash-te-o-lah's heart; for, savage as the world would call him, and
ignorant of the codes of chivalry and of the courtly phrase of love, he
was as true to all the warmer and purer affections, which constitute the
bliss of domestic life, as to the lofty sentiments of heroic virtue,
which made him early conspicuous in the councils of his people. Though
fearless as the lion, fleet as the roe