I were skeered, but when I see that they was nobody drunk, I pushed right into the big village an' asked fer the old Senecky chief Bear Face--knowin' he were thar--an' said I had a letter from the Big Father.

They tuk me to him.
"I give him a chain o' wampum an' then read the letter from Sir Bill.
It offered the Six Nations more land an' a fort, an' a regiment to defend 'em.

Then he give me a lot o' hedge-hog quills sewed on to buckskin an' says he: "'You are like a lone star in the night, my brother.

We have stretched out our necks lookin' fer ye.

We thought the Big Father had forgot us.
Now we are happy.