COMPLETE. NUMBER 1. BEADLE'S DIME NOVELS UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ONE DIME THE CHOICEST WORKS OF THE MOST POPULAR AUTHORS. MALAESKA: the INDIAN WIFE of [Illustration] THE WHITE HUNTER BY MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS. BEADLE AND COMPANY. NEW YORK: 118 WILLIAM ST. LONDON: 44 PATERNOSTER ROW. American News Company, 121 Nassau St. READY TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th. THE MARKED BULLET; OR, THE SQUAW'S REPRIEVE. A TALE OF THE EARLY OHIO SETTLEMENTS. BY GEORGE HENRY PRENTISS. MALAESKA THE INDIAN WIFE OF THE WHITE HUNTER. BY MRS. ANN S. STEPHENS. BEADLE AND COMPANY NEW YORK: 118 WILLIAM STREET. LONDON: 44 PATERNOSTER ROW. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by IRWIN P. BEADLE & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. (No. 1.) CONTENTS CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. MALAESKA. CHAPTER I. The brake hung low on the rifted rock With sweet and holy dread, The wild-flowers trembled to the shock Of the red man's stealthy tread; And all around fell a fitful gleam Through the light and quivering spray. While the noise of a restless mountain-stream Rush'd out on the stilly day. The traveler who has stopped at Catskill, on his way up the Hudson, will remember that a creek of no insignificant breadth washes one side of the village, and that a heavy stone dwelling stands a little up from the water on a point of verdant meadow-land, which forms a lip of the stream, where it empties into the more majestic river. This farm-house is the only object that breaks the green and luxuriant beauty of the point, on that side, and its quiet and entire loneliness contrasts pleasantly with the bustling and crowded little village on the opposite body of land. There is much to attract attention to that dwelling. Besides occupying one of the most lovely sites on the river, it is remarkable for an appearance of old-fashioned comfort at variance with the pillared houses and rustic cottages which meet the eye everywhere on the banks of the Hudson. There are no flowers to fling fragrance about it, and but little of embellishment is manifest in its grounds; but it is surrounded by an abundance of thrifty fruit-trees; an extensive orchard sheds its rich foliage to the sunshine on the bank, and the sward is thick and heavy which slopes greenly from the front door down to the river's brink.