He rejoiced in the pleasures that he had known and adapted himself to present conditions.

Always influenced greatly by what lay just around him, he considered their thicket the best thicket in which he had ever been hidden.

The leaves of last year, drifted into little heaps on which they lay, were uncommonly large and soft.

The light breeze rustling the boughs over his head whispered only of peace and ease, and the two comrades, who lay on either side of him, were the finest comrades any lad ever had.
"Tayoga," he asked, and his voice was sincerely earnest, "can you see on his star Tododaho, the founder and protector of the great league of the Hodenosaunee ?" The young Onondaga, his face mystic and reverential, gazed toward the west where a star of great size and beauty quivered and blazed.
"I behold him," he replied.

"His face is turned toward us, and the wise serpents lie, coil on coil, in his hair.