"

The Seneca paused an instant, and Fuller fancied that a
smile of irony again struggled about his compressed lip. As
the traveler made no remark, however, the youthful
warrior resumed his tale.

"I hear a great deal of what demagogues are doing among
your people, and of the evil they produce. They begin by
flattering, and end by ruling. He carries a strong hand, who
makes all near him help to uphold it. In the crowd few
perceive its weight until it crushes them.

"Thus was it with See-wise. Half the young men listened to
him, and followed in his trail. The aged chiefs took counsel
together. They saw that all the ancient traditions were
despised, and that new conduct was likely to come in with
new opinions. They were too old to change. What was done
has never been said, but See-wise disappeared. It was
whispered that he had gone down among the fish he loved
to take out of season. There is one tradition, that he
speared an enormous salmon, and the fish, in its struggles,
drew him out of his canoe, and that his hands could not let
go of the handle of his spear. Let this be as it may, no one
ever saw See-wise any more, in the form in which he had
been known to his people. At length the trunk of a tree
was seen floating about the Seneca, and one of the oldest
of the chiefs, pointing to it, pronounced the name of 'See-
wise.' He would fish out of season, and his spirit is
condemned, they say, to float among the salmon, and