Ellis Edward Sylvester. Ned in the Block-House: A Tale of Early Days in the West
CHAPTER I. IN THE FOREST
CHAPTER II. THE BOY PIONEER – DEERFOOT, THE SHAWANOE
CHAPTER III. OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER IV. THROUGH THE TRACKLESS FOREST – THE CAUSE
CHAPTER V "SHUT OUT."
CHAPTER VI. THE BLOCK-HOUSE
CHAPTER VII. THE MESSAGE
CHAPTER VIII. OPENING COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER IX. WITHIN THE BLOCK-HOUSE
CHAPTER X. FLAMING MESSENGERS
CHAPTER XI. IN GREAT PERIL
CHAPTER XII "BIRDS OF THE NIGHT."
CHAPTER XIII. SHADOWY VISITORS
CHAPTER XIV. A MISHAP AND A SENTENCE
CHAPTER XV. AN UNEXPECTED VISITOR
CHAPTER XVI. OUT-DOORS ON A DARK NIGHT
CHAPTER XVII. THE LONG CLEARING
CHAPTER XVIII. THE FIERY ENEMY
CHAPTER XIX. THE TUG OF WAR
CHAPTER XX. THE SOUTH WIND
CHAPTER XXI. CONCLUSION
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Before proceeding further it is proper to give the information the reader needs in order to understand the incidents that follow.
Macaiah Preston and his wife were among the original settlers of Wild Oaks, a small town on the Kentucky side of the Ohio, during the latter portion of the last century, their only child being Ned, who has already been introduced to the reader. Beside him they had the bound boy Wildblossom Brown, a heavy-set, good-natured and sturdy negro lad, whom they took with them at the time they removed from Western Pennsylvania. He was faithful and devoted, and he received the best of treatment from his master and mistress.
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Deerfoot then asked why they did not assail the block-house on the Licking, whose exposed situation seemed to invite such attack. Waughtauk answered that Colonel Preston had proved a good friend to the Indians who visited him, and it was decided to spare him.
This answer excited the suspicion of the youthful Shawanoe that the Wyandot chieftain had been deceiving him from the first; but Deerfoot was too cunning to reveal anything of his thoughts. When he bade his friends good-by, they at least were misled into the belief that he held no suspicion of the "double tongue" with which they had spoken.
