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Nature quickened in the bosom of the mother at the
sight; and she finally yielded the rights of the dead, to the more
urgent claims of the living.
The foregoing occurrences had struck a spark from the stern tempers of
a set of beings so singularly moulded in the habits of their
uncultivated lives, which served to keep alive among them the dying
embers of family affection. United to their parents by ties no
stronger than those which use had created, there had been great
danger, as Ishmael had foreseen, that the overloaded hive would swarm,
and leave him saddled with the difficulties of a young and helpless
brood, unsupported by the exertions of those, whom he had already
brought to a state of maturity. The spirit of insubordination, which
emanated from the unfortunate Asa, had spread among his juniors; and
the squatter had been made painfully to remember the time when, in the
wantonness of his youth and vigour, he had, reversing the order of the
brutes, cast off his own aged and failing parents, to enter into the
world unshackled and free.


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