Part 30 (2/2)

After ato Indian custo on which to feast There was a large cory Mr Ayer's coas in the barnyard near

Three daring fellows sitting by theard to their comparative prowess After an excitement was created, one of thearden and witnessed the perforan party came immediately to Mr Ayer to learn whether he would take the cow for his own use While they were talking (perhaps twenty minutes) the coas cut in pieces, and in the Indians' kettles preparatory to a good time After the Indians had sold their land they paid for the cow

AN UNJUST ACCUSATION

Indians are said to be revengeful They are So are white hts So do white men They are thieves and liars

So are white men Quarrelsome, envious, jealous So are white e they colo-Saxons Sin is none the better, nor less oodhis shi+rts that were laid out on the snohiten His wife, not re, asked hiet them But they were not to be found! ”Who has been here this ?” was asked ”Ekwazans; I don't remember any other” ”Well, she shan't have those shi+rts I'll overtake her before she gets home” He followed her four miles, determined to have his shi+rts The wowahly In the meantime the wife espied the shi+rts just where she had put theret to thehed heartily; others raced by the accusation, but neverto ”pay back,” or in any way to avenge the wrong

INDIAN MAGNANIMITY

An ereen hand,” was crossing a portage The load on his back was topped off with a bag of flour The hill was steep and long Steps were cut in it like a flight of stairs

As he reached the top ato the foot of the hill The French after it Some of the coht kill him He told theathered himself up, came to the top of the hill, told the Frenchht, offered his hand and they were firnanimous had it been a white e, Massachusetts, in 1803

When he o years old the family moved to Central New York His father was a Presbyterian minister, and they intended that their son should follow the same profession; but before he was prepared his health failed and he turned his attention to other business

He co the mission school at Mackinaw, under the superintendency of Rev M

Ferry The pupils of this school were not all Ojibways but were froes Mackinaas then a general depot of the North Aht not only their own children to the school but such others as parents aathered fro, British Aan south They were taught in English only

In the summer of 1830 Mr Ayer went to La Pointe, Lake Superior, with Mr Warren, opened a school and coe In 1831 he met at Mackinaw, Revs Hall and Boutwell, ere sent out by the An Missions to the Indians, and he returned with Mr and Mrs Hall and their interpreter to spend another winter at La Pointe

The next year, 1832, Mr Ayer wintered with another trader at Sandy Lake He opened a school there and co book which was co of 1833 he left Sandy Lake for Utica, New York, to get the book printed Mr

Aitkin, hohty dollars, and with a pack on his back and an experienced guide, he started on his journey

Before they reached Sault Ste Marie the ice on Lake Superior was so weak that Mr Ayer broke through and was saved only by carrying horizontally in his hands a long pole to prevent his sinking

Mr Ayer hastened on to coht return to Mackinaw in tio up Lake Superior with the traders Mr Ayer, hitherto an independent worker, now put himself under the direction of the ”American Board,” and was sent to Yellow Lake, within the present bounds of Burnett county, Wisconsin Miss Delia Cooke, whose na the early missionaries of the Airl educated at Mackinaw, and who had so the number who coasted up Lake Superior in a Mackinaw boat; the former to La Pointe mission, the latter to Yellow Lake with Mr and Mrs Ayer They wintered in Dr Borup's family Mrs

Borup also had, for some years, been a pupil at Mackinaw The next year Miss Crooks married Rev Mr Boutwell and went to Leech lake, and J L Seymour and Miss Sabrian Stevens, also Henry Blatchford, an interpreter from Mackinaere added to Yellow Lake mission When Mr

Ayer told the Indians his object in coave hi houses in process of building, they were o away A Menoainst the overnment

The speaker said: ”It o up on their land We don't want you to stay; you o!” Mr Ayer answered hiht, and the ht be thurst out al about two-thirds of the same party returned, and said they had coht before

The war chief was speaker, but his words were mild ”Why,” said he, ”should we turn these teachers away before they have done us any harm?” They would like to have us stay, he said, but added that they did not want any ht be the loss of their lands We ht use whatever their country afforded, but they would not give us any land, or sell us any ”For,” said the speaker, ”if we should sell our land where would our children play?”

Mr Ayer finished his school house, and went on with his work as though nothing had happened But evidently things were not as they should be The chief seemed to ”sit on the fence,” ready to jump either way The war chief was always friendly, but he had not so much control over what concerned us He did what he could without giving offense, and was anxious that his daughter of fourteen years should be taken into the er at Yellow Lake In the es inviting the teachers to co of 1836 the hteen miles up the river The chief did all he had pro was said here to re the Indians' wood, water and fish

On the contrary, when they sold their land, it was urged that the teachers' children should be enrolled for annual payment, the same as their own The chief said that as they were born on the land it was no ht be done

In 1842 Mr Ayer ith his family to the States; and in Oberlin was ordained preacher to the Ojibways He soon returned to the Indian country, and David Brainard Spencer, an Oberlin student, with hi fro locations for missionary labor For their own field they chose Red Lake When Mrs Ayer, with her two little boys, six and eight years old, went to join her husband at the new station, Alonzo Barnard and wife and S G Wright, all of Oberlin College, ith her Other missionaries soon followed, and that station was for many years supplied with efficient laborers More recently the work there was assigned to Bishop Whipple, and is still carried on

Mr and Mrs Ayer, in 1865, offered their services to the freed-ia

Mr Ayer organized a Congregational church and a baptistry connected with the house of worshi+p, that heto the wishes of the candidate He also formed a temperance society, which some months before his death numbered more than six hundred members