bout sixty miles.

Of course I was delighted, and while complimenting him for his honesty,
inquired how he knew that it was my party that had made the cache,
rather than a party of Indian hunters.

Without any hesitancy he replied: "Oh I saw your snow shoe tracks in the
snow."

"Impossible!" I answered; "for the snow shoes used by the whole party
were made by Sandy, my Indian boy, and were all of one pattern."

"That no matter," he answered, while his eyes twinkled with amusement.
"Snow shoes all right, but I saw your tracks all the time. When Indian
walk, he walk with toes in; when white man walk, he walk with toes out.
So I saw where the missionary make tracks all the time."

We all voted him a clever, as well as an honest Indian, and rejoiced
that under the faithful teachings of another missionary, this red Indian
of the forest, had been so grounded in the lessons of the sermon on the
mount.

CHAPTER ELEVEN.

THE VINDICATION OF THE SABBATH.

When the missionaries go among the heathen preaching the blessed Gospel
of the great Book, they necessarily have to begin, with first
principles. When good impressions have been made, and hearts touched,
then follows religious instruction in matters of which they have been
perfectly ignorant! and much that is false, and often very childish, has
to be unlearned.

To these people, before the arrival of the missionary, the Sabbath was
utterly unknown. The preaching of it at first filled them with
perplexity and trouble. They thought that it would interfere with their
plans, and so break up their hunting arrangements as to bring them to
absolute want. They were poor, even though working and fishing every
day; and to give up one day out of every seven, and not fire a gun, or
set a net--what would become of them! Thus argued some of the Indians.

Faithfully and lovingly the missionaries set before them the commands of
God adding the promises of blessings to the obedient. The Book itself
was diligently searched, and there was a great desire to know, if such
passages as the one we here quote referred to white people and Indians
now: "If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath, from doing thy
pleasure on my holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy of the
Lord, honourable: and shalt honour him not doing thine own ways, nor
finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words, then shalt
thou delight thyself in the Lord, and I will cause thee to ride u