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Children's Classics in Dramatic Form: A Reader for the Fourth Grade
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form A Reader for the Fourth Grade Author:Augusta Stevenson Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WHITE CANOE Indian Chief. Fourth Young Brave. Seneca, His Daughter. First Older Brave. Medicine-man. Second Older Brave. First Maiden. Third Olde... more »r Brave. Second Maiden. First Woman. Third Maiden. Second Woman. Fourth Maiden. Third Woman. First Young Brave. Fourth Woman. Second Young Brave. Fifth Woman. Third Young Brave. Sixth Woman. Braves, Women, And Maidens. SCENE I Time : in the days of Indian rule, Place : forest bordering on Niagara Falls. [Enter Seneca and many Indian Maidens.] Seneca. It seems to me the roar increases. Listen, Maidens, listen ! First Maiden. It is deeper than before ! All. Aye ! Aye! Second Maiden. All through the summer it has deepened! Third Maiden. And grown angrier! Fourth Maiden. Can the Spirit of the Waters be displeased with us? Seneca. Displeased ? How could that be ? Fourth Maiden. The Medicine-Man has said so. Seneca. Displeased with mortals who are threatened with starvation ! I think the Spirit mourns for us. "Pis His wailing that we hear. First Maiden. Or a warning of the famine that is coming daily nearer. Fourth Maiden. And yet, the Medicine-Man says the Spirit is displeased with us. Second Maiden. Long ago our people thought that and made a sacrifice. Third Maiden. Aye, they sent a maiden over the Falls, in a flower-trimmed white canoe. Seneca. It pleases me that that was long ago, for the chiefest maiden of the tribe was sent, and I am the Sachem's daughter. Fourth Maiden. If such were the custom now, would you be afraid, Seneca ? Seneca. Yes — I fear those swirling waters. The Spirit crushes quickly there. All. Aye ! Aye ! Seneca. My father would not give me up — he would not send me down to death ! He loves me far too dearly. [An India...« less