As an Indian was straying through a village on the Kennebec, he passed a
gentleman standing at his store door, and begged a piece of tobacco. The
person stepped back, and selected a generous piece, for which he received
a gruff "tank you," and thought no more of the affair. Three or four
months afterwards, he was surprised at an Indian's coming into the store
and presenting him with a beautiful miniature birch canoe, painted and
furnished with paddles to correspond. On asking the meaning of it, he was
told, "Indian no forget; you give me tobacco; me make this for you." This
man's gratitude for a trifling favor had led him to bestow more labor on
his present than would have purchased him many pounds of his favorite
weed.
[Illustration: Indian Chief.]