But do you know a very strange thing has happened since you were here?
Our father, Governor Cass,[10] has sent for me to come to Detroit, that he may send me among the Wyandottes and other nations to learn their customs and manners.

Now, if I go, as I shall be obliged to do, I shall be absent two or three years,--perhaps four.

What then?
Why, the people will say, Shaw-nee-aw-kee has married Four-Legs' daughter, and then has hated her and run away from her, and so everybody will laugh at her, and she will be ashamed.

It will be better to take some good, valuable presents, blankets, guns, etc., and to marry her to one of her own people, who will always stay by her and take care of her." The old man was shrewd enough to see that it was wisest to make the best bargain he could.

I have no doubt it cost a round sum to settle the matter to the satisfaction of the injured damsel, though I have never been able to ascertain how much.