The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam

The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam
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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?”

“You do,” replied the Indian.

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