Wenona's face is pale, and her eyes are red like blood from weeping.

The Deer-killer promised to make her his wife, and now that he has broken his word to her, he tells Wanska that he will never take another wife, but she cannot trust him." "Wanska was well named the Merry Heart," the warrior replied; "she laughs at Wenona and calls her a fool, and then she wishes me to marry her.

Who would listen to a woman's words?
And yet the voice of the Merry Heart is sweeter than a bird's--her laugh makes my spirit glad.

When she sits in my lodge and sings to the children who will call me father, I shall be happy.

Many women have loved the Deer-killer, but never has he cared to sit beside one, till he heard the voice of Wanska as she sang in the scalp-dance, and saw her bear the scalp of her enemy upon her shoulders." Wanska's face was pale while she listened to him.