[Illustration: 9009]
S 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 not forget; you give me tobacco; me make this for
you.”
[Illustration: 0010]
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.