He could not yet bring himself to the point of letting them go free altogether.
With this somewhat lengthy parenthesis, we will now return to the present visit of the Huron to his island home.
Oonomoo was about to pass into the interior of the lodge, when a light exclamation caught his ear.

As he turned his head, Fluellina came bounding to his arms.

However stoical and indifferent the North American Indian may appear in the presence of his companions or of white men, it is a mistake to suppose that he is wanting either in the ordinary affections of humanity, or in those little demonstrations of love so peculiar to our own race.

Deep in the woods, when alone with their families, they throw off restraint and are warriors no more--but _men_.

The little child is dandled on the knee, or sported with upon the grass, and the proud mother receives her share of her husband's caresses.