There are no banks of established respectability in which to bury the talent there; no napkin of precedent in which to wrap it.

What cannot be made to pass current, is not esteemed coin of the realm.
To the windows of this house, where the daughter of a famous "Indian fighter," i.e.fighter against the Indians, was learning French, and the piano, came wild, tawny figures, offering for sale their baskets of berries.

The boys now, instead of brandishing the tomahawk, tame their hands to pick raspberries.
Here the evenings were much lightened by the gay chat of one of the party, who with the excellent practical sense of mature experience, and the kindest heart, united a _naivete_ and innocence such as I never saw in any other who had walked so long life's tangled path.
Like a child, she was everywhere at home, and, like a child, received and bestowed entertainment from all places, all persons.

I thanked her for making me laugh, as did the sick and poor, whom she was sure to find out in her briefest sojourn in any place, for more substantial aid.

Happy are those who never grieve, and so often aid and enliven their fellow-men! This scene, however, I was not sorry to exchange for the much celebrated beauties of the island of Mackinaw..