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The Complete Works of Whittier

INTRODUCTION
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Umpachee's people have all gone to one place.

If Umpachee go to a praying-house, the Great Father will send him to the white man's place, and his father and his mother and his sons will never see him in their hunting-ground.

No.
Umpachee is an old beaver that sits in his own house, and swims in his own pond.

He will stay where he is, until his Father calls him." Saying this, the old savage went on his way.

As he passed out of the valley, and got to the top of the hill on the other side, we, looking after him, beheld him standing still a moment, as if bidding farewell to the graves of his people.
May 24.
My brother goes with me to-morrow on my way to Boston.


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