That is wisest, and it is much the easiest to the mind, if one can
only do it. I ricommend to you, trusting to God, and putting down
all misgivings and fainthearted feelin's. It's wonderful, Judith,
how different people have different notions about the futur', some
fancying one change, and some fancying another. I've known white
teachers that have thought all was spirit, hereafter, and them,
ag'in, that believed the body will be transported to another world,
much as the red-skins themselves imagine, and that we shall walk
about in the flesh, and know each other, and talk together, and be
fri'nds there as we've been fri'nds here."
"Which of these opinions is most pleasing to you, Deerslayer?"
asked the girl, willing to indulge his melancholy mood, and far from
being free from its influence herself. "Would it be disagreeable
to think that you should meet all who are now on this platform in
another world? Or have you known enough of us here, to be glad to
see us no more.
"The last would make death a bitter portion; yes it would. It's
eight good years since the Sarpent and I began to hunt together,
and the thought that we were never to meet ag'in would be a hard
thought to me.
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