Out-doors at Idlewild: Or, The Shaping of a Home on the Banks of the HudsonC. Scribner, 1855 - 519 pages |
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Page 437 - LITTLE drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land.
Page 438 - Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our earth an Eden, Like the heaven above.
Page 411 - These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend no good to us : though the wisdom of nature can reason it thus and thus, yet nature finds itself scourged by the sequent effects...
Page 42 - Woman, thou hast two tongues and two faces. Speak the truth, or thy children shall surely die.' The little boy and girl were then brought close to her, and the two savages stood over them, ready to execute their bloody orders. " ' Wilt thou name,' said the old Indian, ' the red man who betrayed his tribe? I will ask thee three times.
Page 41 - Stacey, who by this time had got some distance out into the stream. They gained on him so fast, that twice he dropped his paddle, and took up his gun. But his wife prevented his shooting, by telling him, that if he fired, and they were afterwards overtaken, they would meet no mercy from the Indians.
Page 40 - ... than usual. At last the old Indian said, '• I am a red man, and the pale faces are our enemies : why should I speak '!" — " But my husband and I are your friends : you have eaten salt with us a thousand times, and my children have sat on your knees as often. If you have any thing on your mind, tell it me." — " It will cost me my life if it is known, and the whitefaced women are not good at keeping secrets,
Page 42 - His wife was then questioned; while, at the same moment, two Indians stood threatening the two children with tomahawks, in case she did not confess. She attempted to evade the truth, by declaring she had a dream the night before, which alarmed her, and that she had persuaded her husband to fly.
Page 39 - Stacey's wife began to think strange of this, and related it to her husband, who advised her to urge the old man to an explanation the next time he came. Accordingly, when he repeated his visit the day after, she was more importunate than usual. At last the old Indian said— " ' I am a red man, and the pale faces are our enemies — w,hy should I speak ?' " ' But my husband and I are your friends ; you have eaten salt with us a thousand times, and my children have sat on your knee as often. If you...
Page 48 - And that description of it stuck captivatingly in my memory. "Idle-wild!" "Idle-wild!" But let me describe what belongs to Idlewild, besides its acres of good-for-nothing torrent and unharvestable crags, and besides the mere scenery around them. To begin with a trifling convenience, it supplies a clock, gratis. From the promontory on which stands my cottage, I see five miles of the Hudson River Railroad, and two miles of the Newburgh...
Page 41 - All this took up considerable time, and precious time it proved to this poor family. " The daily visits of old Naoman, and his more than ordinary gravity, had excited suspicion in some of the tribe, who had accordingly paid particular attention to the movements of Stacey.