There is doubt as to his fate, and there is a proposition to solve it.

Now, in the natural sciences truth is always a desideratum; and I confess it would seem to be equally so in the present case of domestic uncertainty, which may be called a vacuum where according to the laws of physic, there should exist some pretty palpable proofs of materiality." "Don't mind him, don't mind him," cried Esther, observing that the rest of his auditors listened with an attention which might proceed, equally, from acquiescence in his proposal or ignorance of its meaning.

"There is a drug in every word he utters." "Dr.Battius wishes to say," Ellen modestly interposed, "that as some of us think Asa is in danger, and some think otherwise, the whole family might pass an hour or two in looking for him." "Does he ?" interrupted the woman; "then Dr.Battius has more sense in him than I believed! She is right, Ishmael; and what she says, shall be done.

I will shoulder a rifle myself; and woe betide the red-skin that crosses my path! I have pulled a trigger before to-day; ay, and heard an Indian yell, too, to my sorrow." The spirit of Esther diffused itself, like the stimulus which attends a war-cry, among her sons.

They arose in a body, and declared their determination to second so bold a resolution.