He appeared very anxious to keep me at a distance, but once he came close enough for me to catch his breath, and if it did not reveal the fumes of liquor then I was never more mistaken in my life." "Impossible! where could he obtain it ?" "The question I asked myself and which I could not answer; nevertheless his manner and the evidence of his own breath proved it beyond all doubt to my mind.

You have noticed how set he is every afternoon about going away in the woods.

Such was not his custom, and I think makes it certain some unusual attraction calls him forth." "What can it all mean ?" asked the missionary of himself.

"No; it cannot be that he brought any of the stuff with him and concealed it in the boat.

It must have been discovered." "Every article that came with us is in this house." "Then some one must furnish him with it, and who now can it be ?" "Are there not some of your people who are addicted to the use of liquor ?" "Alas! there are too many who cannot withstand the tempter; but I never yet heard of an Indian who knew how to _make_ it.