. Forest Glen : or, The Mohawk's friendship . clay: , tlie useful-ness of his work had l)een recognized by every onein the Run; and, when the boys were unwilling toassist, Israel Blanchard would let him have Scip,who was worth more than all the others put to-gether. Ike Proctor was the laziest, and least inclinedto help, of any of the boys. Sammy hired himto turn the wheel half a day for some maple-sugarand two bullets. Ike eat the sugar, pocketed thebullets, worked about an hour, and then Avent said nothing, and manifested no feeling inregard to the affair; but, as soon as Ik
. Forest Glen : or, The Mohawk's friendship . clay: , tlie useful-ness of his work had l)een recognized by every onein the Run; and, when the boys were unwilling toassist, Israel Blanchard would let him have Scip,who was worth more than all the others put to-gether. Ike Proctor was the laziest, and least inclinedto help, of any of the boys. Sammy hired himto turn the wheel half a day for some maple-sugarand two bullets. Ike eat the sugar, pocketed thebullets, worked about an hour, and then Avent said nothing, and manifested no feeling inregard to the affair; but, as soon as Ike left, Aventto the river, obtained a little of the clay thatAvas strongly impregnated Avitli iron, Avorked andkneaded it, Avorking in some red ochre to raise thecolor still more, and made some clay doughnutsprecisely the shape of those his mother Avas accus-tomed to make of dough, and baked them. After seACral days had [)assed, he told Ike if heAvould help him half a day, and stick to it, Avhenthe Avork Avas done he Avould give him a dozen. THE mohawks friendship. 297 dougliniits and four gun-flints, boughten ones; andto this Proctor agreed. When the time was up, Sam gave him the flints,and went to the fort for the doughnuts, that hehad given his mother a charge to keep hot in theDutch oven, and put a little lard on them. Sam-my took the clay doughnuts in a cloth, and whenwarm and greasy they looked precisely like thereal ones: he took one flour doughnut in hispocket. He spread them out on the table beforeIke, and clapped the one from his pocket into hismouth, saying, Eat em, Ike, while theyre hot:only see how hot they be. So they be, said Ike, taking one in his hand:he attempted to bite it, burnt his tongue, and thetears came into his eyes. He threw the hot brickdown in a great rage, and began throwing theothers at Sammys head. The latter retreated totlie trough that was two-thirds full of soft claytrodden only the day before, and returned theattack with right good-will in a
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