the " Injuns " had done, and the way somebody's
great-grandfather, who, had the best farm in San-
do wne, had managed, with certain wise saws and
proverbs, brought across seas, and kept here for
more than two centuries now in the conservative
rustic consciousness of the Sandowners, though it
never occurred to Sam to know how some of these
last belonged to the sturdy' Saxon churls, adorned
with the silver collar of their Norman masters, who
ploughed land in England nigh a thousand years ago,

" We plant corn," Sam said, " as the Injuns did,
when the swamp-pinks come out ; and them were
wise fellers about fish and birds and flow'rs and sich
things. Kinder natr'l to 'em, as for a pappoose to
swim when the women throwed 'em into the river
to toughen 'em ; and old Saul Downer, though he
does raise mighty great corn with his sea-weed and
muck yonder, could n't find the best land in his
pastures for a cornfield half so nice as them creeturs,
the Injuns, did the warm, red land where the sun
strikes first, and out o' the way of frosts. Kinder
natr'l to them black skins, I s'pose," he said.
