. New England; a human interest geographical reader. nd six miles above Concord, New was the home of the Indian whose prisoners theywere. The Indian family consisted of two men, threewomen, and seven children; and there was one othercaptive, a boy who had been carried away fromWorcester, the previous year. On the last night of the month Mrs. Dustin, theother woman, and the boy armed themselves withtomahawks, and killed ten of the twelve Indians. Alad for whom they had a fancy was spared purposely,and one of the squaws whom they had left for dead Bay State Industries and People i
. New England; a human interest geographical reader. nd six miles above Concord, New was the home of the Indian whose prisoners theywere. The Indian family consisted of two men, threewomen, and seven children; and there was one othercaptive, a boy who had been carried away fromWorcester, the previous year. On the last night of the month Mrs. Dustin, theother woman, and the boy armed themselves withtomahawks, and killed ten of the twelve Indians. Alad for whom they had a fancy was spared purposely,and one of the squaws whom they had left for dead Bay State Industries and People i 51 jumped up and ran with him into the woods. Thethree whites took what provisions there were in thewigwam of their master, and put them and a gun anda tomahawk into a canoe. They destroyed the othercanoes and embarked. But they had not gone farwhen Mrs. Dustin decided to return and secure thescalps of the Indians to show their neighbors at homelest their story should not be credited. So back theywent, got the scalps, and carried them to the canoe. The dam at Lawrence in a bag. Then they proceeded on their journey, anddid not pause even at night, for while two of themslept the other managed the boat, and they reachedhome without mishap. 152 New England At Haverhill Whittier was born in 1807 ^^ ^ simple Quaker farmhouse, and the dwelling remains to-day much as he described it in his poem, Snowbound.^ Fully half the nations boots and shoes are made in Massachusetts. Lynn is the leading city for this industry. The old-time shoemaker usedto travel with his kitfrom house to house,and would stay in eachn house long enough to^^^^ f-^^^^k make shoes for the ^^^^K kl^^^H ^^^^^^ family. He sat ^^^HL ? ^Cp-n-^.vmia QYi a low bench and ^^^^HlL. ^^l^^Bhi^*V ^^^ sewed, and ham- ^^^^^^B ^^^^^^m rnered with much the ^^^^^V ^Sm^mmf same simple tools as ^^^V i^/ had been used for the ^^ JHp / purpose in Europe a thousand years before. To-day steel fingers have taken the place of the shoemakers
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