. Indian history for young folks . COUNTRY AROUND TICONDEROGA. Eastman, who was the first to undergo the ordeal, was terribly , whose pole was ornamented with a loons skin, making a suddenrush, knocked down the nearest Indian, and wresting his club from him,struck out right and left, dealing such vigorous blows at each turn that lie 16 24-2 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. made it lively for the Indians without much injury to himself. This feat «/ V V greatly pleased the old Indians, who enjoyed the discomfiture of theiryoung men. When the Indians directed him to hoe corn. Stark cut
. Indian history for young folks . COUNTRY AROUND TICONDEROGA. Eastman, who was the first to undergo the ordeal, was terribly , whose pole was ornamented with a loons skin, making a suddenrush, knocked down the nearest Indian, and wresting his club from him,struck out right and left, dealing such vigorous blows at each turn that lie 16 24-2 INDIAN HISTORY FOR YOUNG FOLKS. made it lively for the Indians without much injury to himself. This feat «/ V V greatly pleased the old Indians, who enjoyed the discomfiture of theiryoung men. When the Indians directed him to hoe corn. Stark cut upthe young corn, and filing his hoe into the river, declaring that it was the. JOHN STARK. business of squaws, and not of warriors, to hoe corn. Pleased with hisboldness, the Indians released him from his task. lie was adopted intothe tribe by the sachem, and treated with genuine kindness as long as litremained with them. lie was subsequently ransomed on payment of £100,and returned home. During the Revolutionary War, Starks services were rendered at themost critical moments, and were of the highest value to his country. At
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