. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. THE ASSAULT BY THE INDIANS 139 Jemima came into our cabin that evening, and mothertold us we must go to sleep while there was a chance;we did our best, but whenever my eyelids would closefrom weariness, they opened very suddenly again asthe yelling from the Indian camp fires burst outafresh. THE ASSAULT BY THE INDIANS Just before break of day the savages made a rush,bringing with them great armfuls of dry wood in the. hope of setting fire to the stockade. The men in thewatch-houses gav
. The Big Sandy Valley. A history of the people and country from the earliest settlement to the present time. THE ASSAULT BY THE INDIANS 139 Jemima came into our cabin that evening, and mothertold us we must go to sleep while there was a chance;we did our best, but whenever my eyelids would closefrom weariness, they opened very suddenly again asthe yelling from the Indian camp fires burst outafresh. THE ASSAULT BY THE INDIANS Just before break of day the savages made a rush,bringing with them great armfuls of dry wood in the. hope of setting fire to the stockade. The men in thewatch-houses gave the alarm, and in an instant every I40 HANNAH OF KENTUCKY one of us inside the stockade was moving here and thereto learn where it was possible to aid in the defense. What was done from daybreak until sunrise I canhardly say. I only know that I carried powder andbullets to the men who cried out that their supply ofammunition was running low, and that I cleaned rifleswhich had grown so hot that the barrels nearly bhsteredmy fingers, while the owners were loading and firingthe spare weapons as quickly as possible. It seemed tome that I worked like one in a dream, doing whatevermy hands found to do, and all the while asking myselfwhether I would be brave enough to endure throughit all. FAILURE OF THE ASSAULT Then, as suddenly as it had begun, the uproar diedaway, and some one in the watch-house cried out thatthe savages were running back to cover, having hadenough of trying to capture the stockade. I saw a man staggeri
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