Heralds of Empire

by Agnes C. Laut

  Now comes that part of a life which deals with what you will say no oneman could do, yet the things were done; with wonders stranger thanwitchcraft, yet were true. But because you have never lived asword-length from city pavement, nor seen one man holding his ownagainst a thousand enemies, I pray you deny not these things.

  Each life is a shut-in valley, says the jongliere; but Manitou, whostrides from peak to peak, knows there is more than one valley, whichhad been a maxim among the jonglieres long before one Danish gentlemanassured another there were more things in heaven and earth thanphilosophy dreamed.