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had plighted her troth to a lover belonging to the *ame hand. But
her stern parents had promised her hand to another, a famous warrior,
and insisted on her wedding him. The day was fixed by her parents'
to her great grief. She appeared to accede to the proposal and accom-
pany them to the rock, for the purpose of gathering flowers for the
feast. On reaching the rock, We-no-na
ran to its summit and standing on its
edge upbraided her parents who were
below, for their cruelty, and then singing
a death-dirge, threw herself from the
precipice and dashed them in pieces on
the rock below.'

* Dashed who in pieces — her parents 1 9
'Yes.'

* Well, it certainly was a tragic busi-
ness, as you say. And moreover, there
is a startling kind of dramatic surprise
about it which I was not looking for. It
is a distinct improvement upon the
threadbare form of Indian legend. There
are fifty !Lover's ILeaps along the Missis-
sippi from 'whose summit disappointed
Iridmn girls have jumped, but this is
the only jump in the lot that turned out
in the right and satisfactory way. "What
became of Winona ? '

t She was a good deal jarred up and
jolted : but she got herself together and
disappeared before the coroner reached
the fatal spot; and *tis said she sought
and married her true love, and wandered

with him to some distant clime, where she lived happy e*er
her gentle spirit mellowed and chastened by ttie romantic
which had so early deprived her of the sweet guidance of a
love and a father's protecting arm, and thrown her» all
upon the cold charity of a censorious world.'

I was glad to hear the lecturer's description of the scenery, for it

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