The savages had some idea of the Great Spirit and of a future world.

David was as uninstructed in those thoughts as are the wolves and the bears.

Many years afterward, in writing of this occurrence, he says, with characteristic flippancy, interlarded with coarse phrases: "This proved to me, if a fellow is born to be hung he will never be drowned; and further, that if he is born for a seat in Congress, even flour barrels can't make a mash of him.

I didn't know how soon I should be knocked into a cocked hat, and get my walking-papers for another country." The wagon was quite demolished by the disaster.

Another was obtained, the flour reloaded, and they proceeded to Baltimore, dragging the wreck behind them, to be repaired there.