. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. , they made a last desperate resist-ance; but the Captain and most of his company were few days afterwards, when Major Treat came along, he sawthe heads of the slain stuck on poles by the travelled path,the sign and threat of Indian vengeance. About the middle of September Captain Lathrop with his company were ^sizs3^^32Em:^3S£2s:?m!m from y^^ Deerfield toi| Hadlcy. In the|| neighborhood off = Mount Sugar-ed 3 loaf they stop-•;.^; ped by
. The history of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the young; being also in some part the history of other towns and cities in the county of Hampden. , they made a last desperate resist-ance; but the Captain and most of his company were few days afterwards, when Major Treat came along, he sawthe heads of the slain stuck on poles by the travelled path,the sign and threat of Indian vengeance. About the middle of September Captain Lathrop with his company were ^sizs3^^32Em:^3S£2s:?m!m from y^^ Deerfield toi| Hadlcy. In the|| neighborhood off = Mount Sugar-ed 3 loaf they stop-•;.^; ped by a brookt^ to pick the wildf^ grapes that hung• temptingly on/V the vines about— them. It wasan excellentplace for an am-bush and theIndians wellknew it. No sooner were the troops scattered and theirarms laid aside than the very bushes seemed on fire fromthe guns of, perhaps, hundreds of Indians, Pocumtucks,Nonotucks, Nashaways, Squakheags, led by Sagamore Sam,One-Eyed John, Muttaiimp, and, quite likely, Philip slaughter was well nigh complete. Almost the only personwho escaped had thrown himself into the bed of the brook. This cut is from The Little Readers Assistant, byNoah Webster, author of the Dictionary. It shows the cleverescape of an Indian ally of the whites who, being pursuedby one of Iving Philips men, hid behind a rock and, raising hisheadgear on the barrel of his gun, drew the fire of his reload the gun, a flint lock, took so much time that the firstIndian escaped. KING PHILIPS WAR 69 and pulled the bushes over him. Although stepped on bymore than one Indian, he lay quiet until all was over. Thisconflict is known as the battle of Bloody Brook. A monumentnear by now marks the burial place of the slain.
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