The Pine-tree coast . ivated farms, now shadowed by thick-set woods, one comesto Durells bridge. Nothing could be more at variance with the tragedy onceenacted here than the prevailing drowsiness of a summers day. But to mystory : — Philip Durell lived a Long mile above the lock, at what is called the Land-ing. His isolated situation invited the attack which his absence from homemade so easily successful. When he did retain, at nightfall. Durell found hishouse plundered and desolate. He did not need to be told what the ruinabout him meant, or who had been there in his absence. His wife and son
The Pine-tree coast . ivated farms, now shadowed by thick-set woods, one comesto Durells bridge. Nothing could be more at variance with the tragedy onceenacted here than the prevailing drowsiness of a summers day. But to mystory : — Philip Durell lived a Long mile above the lock, at what is called the Land-ing. His isolated situation invited the attack which his absence from homemade so easily successful. When he did retain, at nightfall. Durell found hishouse plundered and desolate. He did not need to be told what the ruinabout him meant, or who had been there in his absence. His wife and son, hismarried daughter. Mrs. Baxter, with her infant, were all gone. — all in thehands of murdering savages. The men of that day were men of hurriedly collected his nearest neighbors, with whom he started off inpursuit. It happened that while the Indians were ransacking Durells house, theycame across the old family Bible, which in those primitive days men believed to be the undoubtedi -^~~ ^> &. THE OLD LOCK. Word of God. The savages knew that thisbook was held in thehighest veneration bythe pale faces ; so. in thebelief that it would putthem in possession ofsome all-powerful charm,they took it away withthem. They supposed , to be the whitemans trusted oracle andguide through which hederived all his superiorknowledge and power. But the march to Canada was long and the Good Bookheavy, —so heavy that, notwithstanding its presumed potency, the savage whocarried it threw it away at the first camping-place. Upon finding themselves closely pursued, these Indians inhumanly butch-ered all their prisoners except the boy, John Durell, and left them lying intheir blood. John was taken to Canada, where he lived so long with his cap-tors that he became half Indian, and wholly weaned from the habits of civil-ized life. After lying buried all winter long under the snow, the stolen Bible wasfound by accident in the spring. I have had the pleasure of examining thi
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