. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. r they could see the three girls asleep. TwoIndians were near them. One of these Indians wasasleep. The other was wide awake, keeping watch. Boone and Calloway wished to get their daugh-ters away without waking the Indians. If theIndians had known that the white men were there,they would have killed their prisoners. Calloway now pointed his gun at the sleepingIndian. If he moved, Calloway meant to shoot went behind the Indian that was awake. Hewanted to catch hold of him and keep him fromo^ivino^ an alarm. But the Indian wa
. Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans. r they could see the three girls asleep. TwoIndians were near them. One of these Indians wasasleep. The other was wide awake, keeping watch. Boone and Calloway wished to get their daugh-ters away without waking the Indians. If theIndians had known that the white men were there,they would have killed their prisoners. Calloway now pointed his gun at the sleepingIndian. If he moved, Calloway meant to shoot went behind the Indian that was awake. Hewanted to catch hold of him and keep him fromo^ivino^ an alarm. But the Indian was too watch-ful. He sprang to his feet and gave a yell. Allthe Indians came running to see what was thematter. The two white men did not fire. If they had,they and their daughters would all have been pre-tend-ed to have come to beg for theirdaughters. At first the Indians were going to kill them onthe spot. Then they tied them with cords, andwent to their other camp. After talking about it all night, they made up EGGL, GT. AMER. — 6. 83 their minds to put the two men to death. Whenmorning came, they took them off into the tied them to two trees. Two Indians werechosen to kill them with hatchets. Everything was ready. But all at once gunswere fired from the bushes. Bang, bang! wentthe 2[uns. Some of the Indians were killed. Bane,bang! went the guns again. Boones friends hadcome up to find out what was the matter. The Indians thought that a large party hadcome. They ran away as fast as they could. Theyleft Boone and Calloway tied to the trees. Theydid not have time to take the girls with them. The cords that tied Boone and Calloway to thetrees were soon cut by their friends. They foundthe three girls and started homeward. It was aglad day when the two fathers and their threedaughters got back into the fort. DECATUR AND THE PIRATES. Nearly a hundred years have passed since theship Phil-a-del-phi-a was burned. But the bravesailors who did it will never be f
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