Ha-ai! Karenna! Fate is Fate.

Now let the Giants clothed in stone
Stalk from Biskoonah; while, new grown,
The Severed Heads fly high—fly high!
White-throat, White-throat, thy doom is known!
O Blazing Soul that soars alone
Like a Swift Arrow to the sky,
High winging—fling thy Wampum down,
Lest the sky fall on Catharines-town.

White-throat, White-throat, thy course is flown.
R. W. C.


CONTENTS

I [THE BEDFORD ROAD]
II [POUNDRIDGE]
III [VIEW HALLOO!]
IV [A TRYST]
V [THE GATHERING]
VI [THE SPRING WAIONTHA]
VII [LOIS]
VIII [OLD FRIENDS]
IX [MID-SUMMER]
X [IN GARRISON]
XI [A SCOUT OF SIX]
XII [AT THE FORD]
XIII [THE HIDDEN CHILDREN]
XIV [NAI TIOGA!]
XV [BLOCK-HOUSE NO. 2]
XVI [LANA HELMER]
XVII [THE BATTLE OF CHEMUNG]
XVIII [THE RITE OF THE HIDDEN CHILDREN]
XIX [AMOCHOL]
XX [YNDAIA]
XXI [CHINISEE CASTLE]
XXII [MES ADIEUX]

CHAPTER I

THE BEDFORD ROAD