Providence must indeed take special care of fools.

Have the redskins captured our French friend ?" "He entered a step in my advance." A gleam of amusement played over his swarthy face.
"Ah, and so you let him win!" he exclaimed; "he, a mere voyager from the courts, unused to forest play! Such remissness deserves the guard-house, at the very least.

Come, how happened it that this gay sprig outfooted you ?" "'T was but a trick," I retorted, aroused by these contemptuous words, "and one I shall make him pay well for.

But I pray you cut these bands and set me free." I think he had not noticed them before; but now, as he quickly drew his knife across the deerskin thongs, his whole expression changed.
"'Tis Indian tying," he said earnestly; "you have been in the hands of the savages ?" "Ay!" and the memory of it instantly brought back the recollection of the sacrifice that had won us our freedom.

"There were three of us taken at daylight on the river bank, beyond the factory building.