round him, and made them
eat his food and drink his tea. Then he talked to them of the one
living and true God, and of His power to hear and answer prayer. He
spoke of the foolishness and wickedness of those, who, having heard
about Him, had gone and consulted the wicked old conjurer. "Let us go
to that God about whom we have been taught by our missionaries. He is
the one to help us in our trouble."

With the people all around him, he kneeled down in snow, and earnestly
and reverently asked God to hear and help them in their sorrow and
perplexity. He prayed that wisdom might be given them, so that they
might find the body of their dear friend lying somewhere in that cold
river; that they might take it up, and bury it in their little village
graveyard. He asked God very earnestly to comfort the poor sorrowing
widow and the little helpless children. Thus with believing faith did
this venerable old Indian of more than fourscore winters, call upon God.

When they arose from their knees he said: "Now trusting in God to answer
us, let us go to work."

On account of the quantity of snow that had fallen on the ice, they had
first to scrape it away, and then use their judgment about where to cut
through the ice, and drag for the body. Although Thomas was so old a
man, he now seemed the most alert and active of the party. By common
consent, he was given charge of the party of Christian Indians, who now
worked diligently under his direction.

In the meantime, the old conjurer Kwaskacarpo in a confident voice told
his followers, that he had conjured, and the answer was, that they were
to cut the ice in a certain designated place.

Paying no attention to him or his party, the Christian Indians worked
away, and as fast as the ice was cleared of snow, Thomas looked through
as well as he could.

All at once he arose quickly from a spot of semi-transparent ice which
he had been carefully examining, and calling to the men with the axes
and ice-chisels, he said:

"Try here."

Soon they had a large hole cut, the grappling irons were brought into
use, and there hundreds of yards from the place where the conjurer had
directed his followers to look for it, the body was found.

Thomas, while intently searching through the ice, had seen on the under
surface at that place a quantity of air bubbles. The thought came to
him, that here the body had rested, and the last air from the lungs had
escaped and formed these bubbles. H