I hoped I might not have to see Rowena before she went away; for the very thought of seeing the girl with the child embarrassed me; but on the third day the widowthey afterward moved on to the Fort Dodge countrycame to me, and standing afar off as if I was infected with something malignant, told me that Mrs. Vandemark wanted to see me.

I could not see it twenty feet away; but I was almost upset by a snow fort which the children had built, and taking this as the sure sign of a playground, I guessed my way the fifty or sixty feet that more by luck than judgment brought me to the back end of the house, instead of the front.

eparture from Fort WinnebagoDuck CreekUpset in a CanoePillonEncamping in WinterFour LakesIndian EncampmentBlue MoundMorrison'sA Tennessee Woman CHAPTER XIV.

Fort DearbornChicago in 1831First Settlement of ChicagoJohn Kinzie, Sen.-Fate of George ForsythTrading PostsCanadian VoyageursM. St. JeanLouis la Liberté CHAPTER XVIII.

Mr. KentAn Escaped PrisonerThe Cut-Nose againLeave-taking with our Red ChildrenDeparture from Fort Winnebago APPENDIX THE "EARLY DAY" IN THE NORTHWEST.

Every year the leading men of the Chippewas, Ottawas, Pottowattamies, Menomonees, Winnebagoes, Sauks, and Foxes, and even still more remote tribes, journeyed from their distant homes to Fort Malden in Upper Canada, to receive their annual amount of presents from their Great Father across the water.

There were, besides these, the residences of the Dousmans, the Abbotts, the Biddles, the Drews, and the Lashleys, stretching away along the base of the beautiful hill, crowned with the white walls and buildings of the fort, the ascent to which was so steep that on the precipitous face nearest the beach staircases were built by which to mount from below.

She had been a great belle among the young officers at Fort Crawford; so much so, indeed, that the suicide of the post-surgeon was attributed to an unsuccessful attachment he had conceived for her.

As we steamed away from the shore, the view came full upon usthe sloping beach with the scattered wigwams, and canoes drawn up here and therethe irregular, quaint-looking housesthe white walls of the fort, and, beyond, one eminence still more lofty crowned with the remains of old Fort Holmes.

As we steamed away from the shore, the view came full upon usthe sloping beach with the scattered wigwams, and canoes drawn up here and therethe irregular, quaint-looking housesthe white walls of the fort, and, beyond, one eminence still more lofty crowned with the remains of old Fort Holmes.

Every traveller, and every reader of our history, is familiar with the incidents connected with the taking of the old fort by the Indians, in the days of Pontiac.

A gentleman pointed out to me Fort Howard, on a projecting point of the opposite shore, about three-quarters of a mile distantthe old barracks, the picketed inclosure, the walls, all looking quaint, and, considering their modern erection, really ancient and venerable.

We learned, upon inquiry, that Captain Harney, who had kindly offered to come with a boat and crew of soldiers from Fort Winnebago, to convey us to that place, our destined home, had not yet arrived; we therefore felt at liberty to make arrangements for a few days of social enjoyment at "the Bay.

They opened to me, however, a new field of apprehension; for, on my expressing my great impatience to see my new home, they exclaimed, with a look of wonder, "Vous n'avez donc pas peur des serpens?" "Snakes! was it possible there were snakes at Fort Winnebago?"

The young officers were up from Fort Howard, looking so smart in their uniformstreasures of finery, long uncalled forth, were now brought to lighteverybody was bound to do honor to the strangers by appearing in their very best.

As he helped me along over the ploughed ground and other inequalities in our way to the river-bank, where the boat lay, he told me how impatiently Mrs. Twiggs, the wife of the commanding officer, who since the past spring had been the only white lady at Fort Winnebago, was now expecting a companion and friend.

The greater part of our furniture, together with the various articles for housekeeping with which we had supplied ourselves in New York and Detroit, were to follow in another boat, under the charge of people whose business it professed to be to take cargoes safely up the rapids and on to Fort Winnebago.

He was once retaken, and kept for a time in confinement, but immediately on his release deserted again, and his remains were found the following spring, not many miles from the fort.

The trail for Fort Winnebago then led from the shore opposite Butte des Morts, through Ma-zhee-gaw-gaw swamp, and past Green Lake, and it was well for the Judge that his horses stood waiting for him to "mount and away" as early as possible after breakfast, or I am afraid the story

When the fort was first pointed out to me, I exclaimed, with delight, "Oh, we shall be there in half an hour!"

" "But are we going to stop there?" "No; do you not see we are going back to the fort?"

CHAPTER VIII FORT WINNEBAGO.

The Major insisted on our taking possession at once of vacant quarters in the fort, instead of at "the Agency," as had been proposed.

The bold promontory on which Fort Winnebago was built looked down upon the extended prairie and the Fox River on one side, and on the other stretched away into the thickly-wooded ridge that led off to Belle Fontaine and Lake Puckaway.

Too impatient to wait until they could be carried up to the fort, the gentlemen soon furnished themselves with, hammers and hatchets, and fell eagerly to work, opening the boxes to explore the extent of the damage.

His forte, I understand, is the higher mathematics; my turn, I confess, is more to poetry and the belles lettres.

He probably would have found it easier to get a fellowship at Oxford than at Cambridge, since mathematics were uncongenial to him, his forte being languages.

Penalty N. penalty; retribution &c (punishment) 972; pain, pains and penalties; weregild^, wergild; peine forte et dure

Sensibile forte destruit sensum, a strong object overcometh the sight, according to that axiom in philosophy: fulgorem solis ferre non potes, multo magis creatoris; if thou canst not endure the sunbeams, how canst thou endure that fulgor and brightness of him that made the sun?

And therefore, Quid quaeso mi Dorpi, as Erasmus concludes to Dorpius, hisce Theologis faciamus, aut quid preceris, nisi forte fidelem medicum, qui cerebro medeatur?

"Quali colombe, dal disio chiamate, Con l'ali aperte e ferme, al dolce nido Volan per l'aer dal voler portate Cotali uscir de la schiera ov'è Dido, A noi venendo per l'aer maligno, Sì forte fu l'affettuoso grido.

Mrs. Fluker, admitting in her heart that farming was not her husband's forte, hoped, like a true wife, that it might be found in the new field to which he aspired.

But Mr. Bentham's forte is arrangement; and the form of truth, though not its essence, varies with time and circumstance.

In fact, his forte is not the spontaneous, but the voluntary exercise of talent.

I used to amuse myself with the piano-forte after supper, when all had gone to bed.

But my college career convinced my uncle that my forte did not lie in the classics, and Sir George succeeded in inducing him to yield to my wishes, and interested himself so strongly for me that I obtained a cornetcy in the 14th Light Dragoons a week before the regiment sailed for Portugal.

Mush is another form of the corn meal; Mr. Cobbett says, "it is not a word to squall out over a piano-forte," "but it is a very good word, and a real English word."

Knowing the noble author's forte in gastronomy, we are almost induced to think the cook, or Lioness a portrait from life.

They who have been so favored can never forget the square anteroom, with its great picture and piano-forte, at which the boy Browning passed many an hour,the little dining-room covered with tapestry, and where hung medallions of Tennyson, Carlyle, and Robert Browning,the long room filled with plaster casts and studies, which was Mr. Browning's retreat,and, dearest of all, the large drawing-room, where she always sat.

[Footnote E: In the case of the peine forte et dure.

Regeneration (or the renewal of souls) is, however, a shoemaker's forte.

In the "Lettres d'un Voyageur," however, she gives us to understand that constancy is not her forte, and a sigh escapes with this confession, "Prie pour moi, ô Marguerite Le Conte!"

But being quiet was not my grandmother's forte; and it is generally understood that people always admire what they are not, or have not themselves.

Then he looked rather grave, and said, "Now I understand: you've been playing too many hairs on the piano-forte."

In two of the congregations I happen to have a more numerous acquaintance, and know that numbers of the congregation have excellent judgment and good voices, and many are good performers on the piano-forte and harp.

Forte de cette assurance, je me mis à l'oeuvre, mais j'avoue que j'eus besoin d'encouragements réitérés pour mener mon travail

This brilliant, this suggestive warden of Carcassonne marched us about for an hour, haranguing, explaining, illustrating, as he went; it was a complete little lecture, such as might have been delivered at the Lowell Institute, on the manner in which a first-rate "place forte" used to be attacked and defended.

For her was bought a "Forte piano," and later, at the cost of a thousand dollars, a very fine imported harpsichord, and one of Washington's great pleasures was to have her play and sing to him.

Repartee is never Frank's forte.

Her first ambition was to be a great actress; and when she found that acting was not her forte she determined to dance her way to fame and fortune, and after a year's training in London and Spain she was ready to conquer the world with her twinkling feet and supple body.