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As alked through the long, dead grass, I, watching sidewise, noted the absence of the Senecas Was it for them the condolence? Suddenly it struck ed the duty of the first rites Who would speak? Not the Oneidas, for there was none, except Little Otter andthe slowly a sache I saw the Senecas now; I saw all the sache themselves in a cleared space where a birch fire s, aromatic smoke; I saw the Oneida cross proudly to his place on our side; and I seated ure of Tahtootahoo, the chief sachea nation, who stood beside the Cayuga spokesa, heavy head bent; to and fro, pacing the circle like a stupefied panther Once his lulea the a were there, fora, and Tuscarora welded it to a ring I glanced fearfully fron, but saw no Delaware present; and my heart leaped with hope Walter Butler had lied to rel clan had no voice here He had lied

The pipe had been lighted and was passing in grave silence I received it fro the chief sachem of the Senecas as he arose to deliver his brief address of welcome He spoke in the Seneca dialect, and so low that I could understand hi except that a Seneca Bear was to be raised up to replace a dead chief slain at Sharon

Then a very old sachen which was the sy the forer a town to invite us to; the rite must be concluded where we sat; we must be content with the sky for the roof which had fallen in on the Long House, the tall oaks for the lodge-poles, the east and west for the doors broken down by the invasion

Soleendary toere recited, first those of the Wolf, next of the Tortoise, then of the Bear; and I saw as staring atof my towns And, by heaven! I noted, too, that the Tuscaroras of the Grey Wolf and the Yellow Wolf knew their places, and rose only after ere seated Except for the Onondaga Tortoise, a cleft clan awaits the pleasure of its betters Even a Delaware should know that much, but Walter Butler was ever a liar, for it is not true that the Anowara or Tortoise is the noble clan, nor yet the Ocquari It is the Wolf, the Oquacho Clan; and the chiefs of the Wolf come first of all!