your foot out, Miss
Percival."

Mary did so; the Indian girl examined it, and smiled and nodded her
head.

"Oh, Captain Sinclair, tell her that the little boy who is gone with her
husband is our cousin."

Captain Sinclair reported her answer, which was, "He will be a great
hunter and bring home plenty of game by and by."

"Well, now, tell her that we shall always be happy to see her, and that
we are going home again; and ask her name, and tell her our own."

As Captain Sinclair interpreted, the Indian girl pronounced after him
the names of Mary and Emma very distinctly. "She has your names, you
perceive; her own, translated into English, is the strawberry-plant."

They then nodded farewell to the young Indian, and returned home. On the
second evening after their visit, as they were at supper, the
conversation turned upon the hunter and his young Indian wife, when
John, who had, as usual, been silent, suddenly broke out with "Goes away
to-morrow!"

"They go away to-morrow, John; where do they go to?" said Mr. Campbell.

"Woods," replied John.

John was correct in his statement. Early the next morning, Malachi Bone,
with his rifle on his shoulder and an ax in his hand, was seen crossing
the prairie belonging to Mr. Campbell, followed by his wife, who was
bent double under her burden, which was composed of all the property
which the old hunter possessed, tied up in blankets. He had left word
the night before with Martin that he would come back in a few days, as
soon as he had squatted, to settle the bargain for his allotment of land
made over to Mr. Campbell. This was just before they had sat down to
breakfast, and then they observed that John was missing.

"He was here just before prayers," said Mrs. Campbell. "He must have
slipped away after the old hunter."

"No doubt of that, ma'am," said Martin. "He will go with him and find
out where he puts up his wigwam, and after that he will come back to
you; so there is no use sending after him; indeed, we don't know which
way to send."

Martin was right. Two days afterward, John made his appearance again,
and remained very quietly at home during the whole week, catching fish
in the stream or practicing with a bow and some arrows, which he had
obtained from Malachi Bone; but the boy appeared to be more taciturn and
more fond of being alone than even he was before; still he was obedient
and kind toward his mother and cousins, and was fond of Percival's
company wh