Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . THE BLOODY BLOCK-HOUSE. 21 No order at all, but all of a heap together. Good! said Asa, they can know but little about bush-fight-. CRIED HE ;AT LEAST! A HUNDRED OF THEM JJ y ^ ^ ing or soldiering of any kind. Now then, the women into the block-house. Kighteous galloped up to our fort to be there first in case theenemy should find it. The women soon followed, carrying what theycould with them. When we were all in the block-house, we
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . THE BLOODY BLOCK-HOUSE. 21 No order at all, but all of a heap together. Good! said Asa, they can know but little about bush-fight-. CRIED HE ;AT LEAST! A HUNDRED OF THEM JJ y ^ ^ ing or soldiering of any kind. Now then, the women into the block-house. Kighteous galloped up to our fort to be there first in case theenemy should find it. The women soon followed, carrying what theycould with them. When we were all in the block-house, we pulledup the ladder, made the gate fast, and there we were. We felt somehow strange when we found ourselves shut up in-side the palisades, and only able to look out through the slits weleft for our rifles. We werent used to be confined in a place, andit made us right down wolfish. There we remained, however, asstill as mice. Scarce a whisper was to be heard. Rachel tore upold shirts and greased them, for wadding for the guns; we changedour flints, and fixed everything about the rifles properly, while thewomen sharpened our knives and axes, all in silence. 22 THE BLOODY BLOCK-HOUSE. Nearly an hour had passed in this way when we heard a shoutingand screaming, and a few musket-shots ; and
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