with arched windows, in the back-ground. On the tomb
were the names, with the dates of the births and deaths, of several individuals,
all of whom bore the name of Grant. An extremely cursory glance at this record,
was sufficient to discover to the young hunter the domestic state of the divine.
He there read, that he was a widower, and that the innocent and timid maiden,
who had been his companion, was the only survivor of six children. The knowledge
of the dependence, which each of these meek christians had on the other, for
happiness, threw an additional charm around the gentle, but kind attentions,
which the daughter paid to the father.
    These observations occurred while the party were seating themselves before
the cheerful fire, during which time, there was a suspension of discourse. But
when each was comfortably arranged, and Louisa, after laying aside a thin coat
of faded silk, and a Gipsy hat, that was more becoming to her modest, ingenuous
countenance, than appropriate to the season, had taken a chair between her
father and the youth, the former resumed the conversation.
    »I trust, my young friend,« he said, »that the education you have received,
has eradicated most of those revengeful principles, which you may have inherited
by descent; for I understand, from the expressions of John, that you have some
of the blood of the Delaware tribe. Do not mistake me, I beg, for it is not
colour, nor lineage, that constitutes merit; and I know not, that he, who claims
affinity to the proper owners of this soil, has not the right to tread these
hills with the lightest conscience.«
    Mohegan turned solemnly to the speaker, and, with the peculiarly significant
gestures of an Indian, he spoke: -
    »Father, you are not yet past the summer of life; your limbs are young. Go
to the highest hill, and look around you. All that you see, from the rising to
the setting sun, from the head-waters of the great spring, to where the crooked
river13 is hid by the hills, is his. He has Delaware blood, and his right is
strong. But the brother of Miquon is just: he will cut the country in two parts,
as the river cuts the low-lands, and will say to the Young Eagle, Child of the
Delawares! take it - keep it - and be a chief in the land of your fathers.«
    »Never!« exclaimed the young hunter, with a vehemence that destroyed