liiilo iionsPDhB utiw and ONii DOLL *• yv. ■ L l8 relislieil Lt ih« wisest ineo.” \ Tnc MKN«r.»:ii* tspotlinij-d < renr Satunl- Sol.;; hie kaven oe the KE-NAuns: in.’nM niwrlcii ••n :nfniowi — Was beautiful as p-Aod : I woiiuei if slic’d get him back Again, cow, if ^ltc could i i know she would, and iln-re she is— She I'ves almost in aiglit: And now its »fUT nine o’clock— I'erhaps hc-'a there to night. T'd ahn-iSi write to him to come— r»ut iLon I’ve said I vvi.m’i; T do not care so much, hut kHc Shav'l have him, if I don’t. Besides, I kn.iw itiat I was wrong, An-l itc WHS in the right; I "lies* I'll lelt him so—and then— / «ijjA he'd «)»« io-niphi. All cotnmuiiications thankfully received. Near the confluence of the i W^isconsiii with the grett father American rivers, aid at no the approaching arrival of his fam- ilv made him still moio anxious than ever to carry out. .\boul a mile front the village. commoJi- ously situated on the ho. ders of a limpid rivulet, and surruutuied on three sides by the sycamore, cedar and pine, was truly an exqui«ite great distance from the Painted | Rock and Fox village oi Turkey j mature would have im- river, the French, in 1781, formed j,„e(,ia>elv selected as suitable for a verrlcHml. ani. from .'amilvof;., ,„i| ,po the Reynard Indians known as the a, luxuriant and “nogs, o.alled it the village of the ; the bursting and Prairie dn Chien, In the present j„jpro„s n„„.pr ahnndanlly testi- iday, tite place is famous as a sla- tfuj Qil this .pot Rienviile had ' ] tion for the voyager on the -Miss-! (p, heart, and had long been ; iBsippi ; but at tiie dale ot whicli ideie,-mined lo build a house there- I we write, it was a distant and 1,1-. ,„ead„„.a ’ tle-lrequenlcd ontpost, in the very pi-odurtive fields. The sturnh- i heart ..I the Itid,a,.Country. 1 he ] „|,ich had ever stood ipt-nrie, on which the village 'y his path had been the presence 'built is hounded m the rear l>.' ; a small hand of friendiv Indi.rns ItigI, haid I•.:lls. at llte foot nf whicIi | gracefuliv dotted then dwelt a band ol the Reynard j a„,face, commanded by the or Fo.x Indians. Tlie prinetprd j ,1,^ Kevnards, a young settler in tlie Prairie du Chien and energy wliere tlie t.iards, the .-knl-ayas, | raised liim from a simple and tlte Dubuques, wl.ile the post ,h,. command of a select was comm-anded by a ondJIo-aged , Altera walk- officer, by name Joseph Rienviile. C,., ,h,. captain turned This Joscpii Rienville had recently ' couceiva- heard ol the arrival ot his wile and mode of obtaining possession only child St Xalchez, "’hence | liiey were expected every day by jconclu.sion, save'that force a boat whicli made pniiodical ^ hend journeys to the young selliement. ,he tr.ail brought liim in full It was early dawn, and Captain | hamlet. Rienvilie, with a rifie on his slioul j -n-j,hi„ iwentv yards of the der, left the village, accompanied ..qg-.^am of some- onty by two favorite dogs, with a . ^^hat stately proportions, in trout view it appeared, of hunting in the which a group at once attract- neighboring forest. His object, jhe captain’s attention. Kear however, was very different . it hin-., leaning on a musket, was was one which, for some time, he the erect form of the Raven of the ihadhadat his heart, and which {See Fo-urthPage.) I it I