In the mean time the sound of guns had brought the men quickly to the fort. John, whose blood was hot, wished to organize a party at once and pursue the Indians, but the older and more prudent objected. The mother said, "No, that is just what they will expect you to do. They will lead you a long and useless chase, or else they will wait for you in ambush. We have no lives to spare, and nothing to avenge. We're Christians and not savages, and we've every reason to-night to be thankful we're alive. I want you to bury the one I shot to save my boy, his scalp on his head and his weapons with him. Bury him in a corner of the clearing and put up a bit of slab to mark the spot."
Some frowned at this, but it was done as she had said.
Before long the story of this burial in some way reached the savages, and was told in many wigwams.
Years afterward an aged squaw came to the fort and asked in broken English to be shown the Indian's grave, and when she saw it she bowed herself thereon and wept.
[THE BISHOP'S DILEMMA.]
The late Bishop of Argyle and the Isles, in Scotland, Dr. Mackarness, was a very large and heavy man, weighing at least 275 pounds.
On one occasion, accompanied by his chaplain, Mr. Chinnery Haldane, he was making his way through the mountains to confirm some children in a far-away village.
The carriage, drawn by strong and agile mountain ponies, slowly ascending through a rocky pass, was suddenly brought to a standstill by a fallen tree. The Highland driver did everything in his power to get by the obstacle, but finally had to go for assistance. The Bishop and his chaplain strolled on.
Now the chaplain wanted to be made a rural dean, and he thought this an excellent opportunity to try the Bishop on the subject. The weather was fine, the view delightful, the Bishop apparently in a good temper. Why not broach this subject so near to his heart? The Bishop heard his request, but instead of answering him, stopped and called attention to the effect of the sun on the distant mountains. Further hints were met in the same way.