Let me get you some nice young squaw to wait upon you, that you may live at ease all the rest of your life." The first wife consents; indeed, she has no option.

If she is of a jealous, vindictive disposition, what a life the new-comer leads! The old one maintains all her rights of dowager and duenna, and the husband's tenderness is hardly a compensation for all the evils the young rival is made to suffer.
It was on Sunday morning that this visit of the Dandy was made to us.

We were all seated quietly, engaged in reading.

Four-Legs inquired of my mother, why we were so occupied, and why everything around us was so still.
My mother explained to him our observance of the day of rest--that we devoted it to worshipping and serving the Great Spirit, as he had commanded in his Holy Word.
Four-Legs gave a nod of approbation.

That was very right, he said--he was glad to see us doing our duty--he was very religious himself, and he liked to see others so.