Frost John. The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam
PREFACE
INDIAN GRATITUDE
INDIAN FRIENDSHIP
THE CAPTIVE SISTER
PARENTAL AFFECTION
THE FRIENDLY MANOEUVRE
GRAND-SUN
TECUMSEH AND THE PROPHET
THE DESTRUCTION OF MONTREAL
A BUFFALO HUNT
TREATMENT OF INDIAN CHILDREN
MRS. HANSON AND HER CHILDREN
THE STORY OF SHON-KA
THE DEATH OF CANONCHET
CHURCH AND THE NARRAGANSETT
THE DEATH OF KING PHILIP
THE RAIN MAKERS
THE BRIDE’S RESCUE
YONDEEGA’S GRATITUDE
THE BURNING OF DEERFIELD
THE FIRE-WATER
FARMER’S BROTHER
THE PROPHET OF THE ALLEGHANY
PETER OTSAQUETTE
PERFIDY PUNISHED
ADVENTURE OF GENERAL PUTNAM
THE INDIANS OF ST. MARY’S
RED JACKET
THE BATTLE OF SACO POND
WINGINA
HAROLD DEAN; OR, THE INDIAN’S REVENGE
BIENVILLE’S EXPEDITION AGAINST THE CHICKASAWS
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OT long after Connecticut began to be settled by the English, a stranger Indian came one day to a tavern in one of its towns in the dusk of the evening, and requested the hostess to supply him with something to eat and drink; at the same time he honestly told her that he could not pay for either, as he had had no success in hunting for several days; but that he would return payment as soon as he should meet with better fortune.
The hostess, who was a very ill-tempered woman, not only flatly refused to relieve him, but added abuse to her unkindness, calling him a lazy, drunken fellow, and told him that she did not work so hard herself, to throw away her earnings upon such vagabonds as he was.
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“Your two bottles of rum,” exclaimed the colonel, pretending not to know any thing of the matter; “pray do I owe you two bottles of rum?”
