the fire crackled in the wide earthen fireplace and the sparks flew up the broad dirt chimney, we may well suppose the

wn desperate boyhood, how Mordecai, the elder brother, had,

ful eyes looked closely into every pile of brush or clump of bushes that might hide an Indian. But the Indians were trained to hide like snakes or f

help, but the younger boy, too bewildered and not comprehendi

rs, he saw a lone Indian come out and seize the boy. With quick aim he fired and the Indian fell dead. Th

l if their poverty was much worse than most of those around them. In this vision of frontier life we can get

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