grave and their eyes cast on the ground. Dick Varley,

too, thought upon the Red-men, but his musings were

deeply tinged with the bright hues of a

first

adventure.

The mountains, the plains, the Indians, the bears, the

buffaloes, and a thousand other objects, danced wildly

before his mind's eye, and his blood careered through

his veins and flushed his forehead as he thought of

what he should see and do, and felt the elastic vigour