buffalo hunt, their war expeditions, and in the histories of old Gauche and of the family of Gros Frangois.
Mr. Culbertson will bring you all the news of the civilized world and a little remembrance from me, consisting of a couple of good razors and penknife.
Believe me to be, etc.
The Grattan Massacre.
Bardstown, Ky., April 17, 1855
MY VERY DEAR GUSTAVE AND MARIE
I have received your good letter of the 4th of October last in response to mine of September 12th. Thank you for :t most sincerely. I cannot express to you how much good your letters, going into such details and so full of family news, do me. I shall keep them most carefully; I find only one fault with them -their dates are rather too far apart: let them be closer together, and I promise you, dear friends, to make it up to you. I rejoiced at the announcement of the birth of your first-born and I implore the Lord daily to keep him for you, for your mutual happiness and the consolation of your dear parents on both sides.
I told you in my last letter that I proposed to return to the desert in the course of this spring. That was sincerely my desire and I regret that serious difficulties have come up which compel me to put off my visits to the savages to more
favorable times and circumstances. For you must know, that the grand and glorious Republic is going to appear on the stage of the great Indian desert to give a representation of the lovely fable of La Fontaine (always old and al ways new) of the Wolf and the Lamb. The moral is, " The wicked and the strong always find plenty of pretexts to oppress the innocent and the weak; and when they lack 77