150 ‘THE SILVER LAKE STORIES.

somely furnished ; and of course every-
thing in it was an entirely strange
sight to these children of the forest ;
and yet as their eyes carelessly passed
from one fine picture, or piece of furni-
ture, to another, no expression of inter-
est or astonishment escaped them;
indeed for any thing that appeared to
the contrary, they might have been
accustomed: to these things all their
days. The common Indians when they
came to the house, would point to these
things, and express their astonishment
in a high prolonged note of exclamation,
but anything of that kind was quite
unbecoming the dignity of a chief.