contents being tasted by any one, and is on the point of being returned again to the red-clothed man, when one of their num ber, a spirited man and great warrior,

jumps up, harangues the the of on impropriety returning the glass with the assembly contents in it ; that the same was handed them by the Manitto in order that they should drink it, as he himself had done before them ; that this would please him ; but to return what he had given to them might provoke him, and be the cause of their

And that since he believed it for the being destroyed by him. the nation that the of contents offered them should be good drank, and as no one else was willing to drink it, he would, let the consequence be what it might j that it was better for one

man to die than for a whole nation to be destroyed. took the off.

He then

the assembly a farewell, drank it fixed on their resolute companion, to see was Every eye

what an

glass, and, bidding

effect this would

have upon him ; and he soon begin-

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ning to stagger about, and at last dropping to the ground, they bemoan him. He falls into a sleep, and they view him as expiring.

He awakes again, jumps up, and declares that he never before felt so He wishes for happy as after he had drank of the cup. more.

His wish is granted ; and the whole assembly soon join