I sometimes wish I might die before I be so bad again!" Poor Cutshamakin! he estimated himself truly.

The Puritan discipline, which aimed at acting on the conduct rather through the conscience and feelings than by means of grace, never entirely subdued him, and he remained a fitfully fierce, and yet repentant, savage to the end of his life.

His squaw must have been a clever woman; for, being publicly reprimanded by the Indian preacher Nabanton, for fetching water on a Sunday, she told him after the meeting that he had done more harm by raising the discussion than she had done by fetching the water.
Sunday was impressed upon the natives with all the strictness peculiar to the British Calvinists in their reaction from the ale-feasts, juggleries, and merry-makings of the almost pagan fifteenth century.

It is never hard to make savage converts observe a day of rest; they are generally used to keep certain seasons already, and, as Mr.Eliot's Indians honestly said, they do so little work at any time that a weekly abstinence from it comes very easily.

At Nonantum, indeed, they seem to have emulated the Pharisees themselves in their strictness.