63 All went along as merrily as possible until one day Eagle Feathei' came home from beyond the Ohio with another white woman, whom he had captured, and who he intended should enjoy the felicities of Indian life on the Killbuck with Mary in her wigwam. She however, did not see happiness from that standpoint, and forthwith the advent of ‘The NewComer,’as Mary called her, into that home, made it, as Pomeroy used to say, "red hot” for Eagle Feather all the time, her puritan idea of the marital overtopping the Indian idea of domestic virtue. Hence, Eagle Feather, whepever he tendered any civilities to the mew comer,’ encountered from Mary all the frowns and hair-raising epithets usually applied by white women to white men of our day under similar surroundings, and he became miserable and unhappy. Failing to appreciate all this storming around the wigwam, he reminded Mary that he could easily kill her; that he had saved her life when captured: had always provided her bear and deer meat to eat, and skins of the finest beasts to lie upon, and in return she had borne him no pap- pooses, and to provide for her shortcomings in this respect he had brought the mew com
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