I do
not now mean to say that all you have heard is not true, but different
tempers call for different employments. You have taken to your bosom,
there, a good and kind child, and it has become your duty to consider
her, as well as yourself, in setting forth in life. You are a little
given to skirting the settlements but, to my poor judgment, the girl
would be more like a flourishing flower in the sun of a clearing, than
in the winds of a prairie. Therefore forget any thing you may have
heard from me, which is nevertheless true, and turn your mind on the
ways of the inner country."
Paul could only answer with a squeeze, that would have brought tears
from the eyes of most men, but which produced no other effect on the
indurated muscles of the other, than to make him laugh and nod, as if
he received the same as a pledge that the bee-hunter would remember
his advice. The trapper then turned away from his rough but warm-
hearted companion; and, having called Hector from the boat, he seemed
anxious still to utter a few words more.
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