Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . any other effect than breaking the glassof a window behind them. Releasing his clasp of Greenes throat, Dick now seized him by thehair ; drew him out of the room, across the piazza, and into the grassplot in front of the cottage, and in less time than the description ofthe deed occupies, cut him literally to pieces ; inflicting seven woundsthat would either of them have been mortal, and hacking and scar-ring the body all over. The pl
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . any other effect than breaking the glassof a window behind them. Releasing his clasp of Greenes throat, Dick now seized him by thehair ; drew him out of the room, across the piazza, and into the grassplot in front of the cottage, and in less time than the description ofthe deed occupies, cut him literally to pieces ; inflicting seven woundsthat would either of them have been mortal, and hacking and scar-ring the body all over. The plantation negroes were all present, but offered no assistanceto their master. As soon as they recovered from their paralysis offear they ran and hid themselve? in the woods. BLACK DICK AND THE LYNCHERS. 179 When Dick had satisfied himself that his master was done for,with his bloody knife in his bloody hand, he rushed out of the in-closure, and down the hill, to finish thepunishment of his wife. She, with oneiother kitchen servant, was concealed inthe swamp at the foot of the hill;but when Dick called her, beside \v,herself with friffht, she left her hidin-. THE NEGRO CUTS II WliL IHUuHtU AM) place and went to him. AVithout aMf word, the negro cut her through and ^ through, and then leaving her for dead, started down the BlufF-road, that led around the town to the mouth of the Big Black-Kiver, and would doubtless have made his escape but for the shrewdness of the same young negro who had at first given Greene the alarm. Without stopping to see the result of the affray, the lad immedi-ately ran down to the town, went first to a tavern upon the mainroad, and then to another, some distance up the river and near theBluff-road. The boarders at either place were just awaiting the teabell, and mustered pretty strongly. Fifty men, at least, immediatelystarted for the scene of the murder; a part by the direct road, and apart—through the lads advice—by the circuitous one. The latter p
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