The fifty-eight acres were never claimed, and there was, I think, a very general impression that asking for our just rights in the case would have a very grasping, covetous look.

How much wiser five-and-twenty years have made us! * * * * * During my sojourn of two months at Chicago, our mother often entertained me with stories of her early life and adventures.

The following is her history of her captivity among the Senecas, which I have put in the form of a tale, although without the slightest variation from the facts as I received them from her lips, and those of her sister, Mrs.William Forsyth, of Sandwich (C.W.), the little Maggie of the story..