, by a common movement, toward the venerable 
Tamenund. From the moment that he took his seat, until the 
present instant, the lips of the patriarch had not severed, and 
scarcely a sign of life had escaped him. He sat bent in feeble- 
ness, and apparently unconscious of the presence he was in, 
during the whole of that opening wordnetanger, in which the skill of 
the scout had been so clearly established. At the nicely grad- 
uated sound of Magua's voice, however, he betrayed some 
evidence of consciousness, and once or twice he even raised his 
head, as if to listen. But when the crafty Huron spoke of his 
nation by name, the eyelids of the old man raised themselves, 
and he looked out upon the multitude with that sort of dull, 
unmeaning expression which might be supposed to belong to the 
countenance of a spectre. Then he made an effort to rise, and 
being upheld by his supporters, he gained his feet, in a posture 
commanding by its , while he tottered with . 

"Who calls upon the children of the Lenape?" he said, 
in a deep, guttural voice, that was rendered awfully audible 
by the breathless silence of the multitude ; " who speaks of 
 gone ? Does not the egg become a worm  the worm