11. There are no Indians near Boston now; they are nearly all dead, or gone far west over the mountains. But, as I said before, when I was a boy, there were a good many in New England, and they used often to come to Boston to sell the skins of wild beasts, which they had killed.

CHAPTER II.

Parley tells his Adventures.

1. WHEN I was about twelve years old, an Indian, by the name of Wampum, came to my father's house in Boston. He had been a chief, or great man among the Indians once, but he was now poor.

2. He was generally esteemed a good

Are there any Indians near Boston now?

What has become of them?

What had Wampum been once?

Indian, and he loved my father, because he once saved his life, when he was attacked by some sailors in the streets of Boston.

3. He asked my father to let me go home with him. He told me of the excellent sport they had in shooting squirrels and deer where he lived; so I begged my father to let me go, and he at length consented.

4. Wampum lived near Northampton, at the foot of a mountain called Mount Holyoke, just on the bank of Connecticut River. It is about one hundred miles from Boston.

5. There is a good road from Boston to Northampton now, and the stage travels it every day. But the road was bad when I went with Wampum, and there were no stages in America then.

Where did Wampum live?

How far is Mount Holyoke from Boston?

What kind of road is there now from Boston to Northampton?

Was it as good when Parley went with Wampum?

6. So Wampum and I set out on foot. The second day we arrived at Worcester. It was then a very little town, and there were no such fine houses there as now.'

7. The fourth day we arrived at Wampum's house, which was a little wigwam at the foot of Mount Holyoke. Here is a picture. of it.

wife and three children; two boys and a girl. They came out to meet us, and were very glad to see Wampum and me.

9. I was very hungry and tired when 1 arrived. Wampum's wife roasted some bear's meat, and gave us some bread made of pounded corn, which formed our supper.

10. We sat on the floor, and took the meat in our fingers, for the Indians had no knives and forks. I then went to bed on some bear skins, and slept very well.

11. Early in the morning, Wampum called me from my sleep, and told me they were going into the woods a-shooting, and that I must go with them. I was soon ready, and set out with Wampum and his

two sons.

What did Parley eat for supper at Wampum's house?
How did he sit? How did he take his meat?

What did he sleep upon ?

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CHAPTER III.

Parley tells how he went out a-shooting.

1. It was a fine bright morning in October. The sun was shining on the top of Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke, two moun tains near Northampton. We ascended Holyoke through the woods.

2. At length we climbed a high rock, from which we could see the beautiful valley far below us, in the centre of which was the little town of Northampton, then much smaller than it is now.

3. "Do you see those houses?" said Wampum to me. "When my grand-father was a boy, there was not a house where you now see so many. That valley, which now belongs to white men, then belonged to the red men.

Where are Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke ?

What town did Parley see from the top of Mount Holyoke?