d several haunches of venison had been eaten,--the
first to show that they had come friendly, the last to show that they
came hungry,--the old chief addressed Washington in a speech, which
your Uncle Juvinell cannot repeat to you word for word as he heard it
from the lips of the worthy old doctor; but he well remembers the
substance thereof, and will give it you as nearly as he can in the
Indian style of oratory.

"'They came and told me,' began the old chief, 'that the great
Long Knife was in our country; and I was very glad. I said to
them, though I be old and feeble, though the way be long, and
the hills many and high, and the rivers many and wide, yet must
I go and see him once more before I die; for it is the young
warrior, whom, years ago, I saw shielded from our bullets by
the hand of the Great Spirit. Let the pale-faces hear my words.
Fifteen summers ago, when the woods and thickets were dense and
green, the French and Indians went out to lay in ambuscade for
the big English general, among the Monongahela hills. I took my
warriors, and went along, and we lay in wait together. The
English were many and strong; we were few and weak: thus we had
no thought of victory in our minds, but only to give our
enemies a little trouble, and keep them back a while till the
big French army came down from the Great Lakes. We saw the
English army cross the river and come up the hill; yet they
suspected not. We saw them walk into our snare, up to the very
muzzles of our guns; nor did they dream of danger, till our
war-whoop went up, and our bullets began to fly as fast as
winter hail. I saw the red-coats fall, and strew the ground
like the red leaves of the woods nipped by an untimely frost,
and smitten by the unseen hands of a mighty wind. The snows of
eighty winters have fallen upon my head. I have been in many a
bloody battle; yet never saw I the red life-stream run as it
that day ran down Braddock's Hill from English hearts. Listen!
I saw that day, among the English, a young warrior who was not
an Englishman. I singled him out as a mark for my rifle; for he
was tall and strong, and rode grandly, and his presence there
was a danger to us. Seventeen times did I take slow and steady
aim, and fire; but my bullets went astray, and found him not.
Then I pointed him out to my you