. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . ns wasa boy captured at Worcesterl(mg before who had learnedto speak their language. Theysaid that by and by we shouldhave to run the gauntlet,whispered the boy to Running the gaunt-let meant running betweentwo rows of men, each manstriking at the captive as heTHE CAPTURE OF HANNAH DUSTAN passcd. Find out whcrc tostrike if one would kill at a blow, whispered Mrs. Dustan. Thatnight they camped on an island in the Merrimack just above Con-cord, New Hampshire. The two women and the boy each tooka tomahawk, and, glidin
. Our country's story; an elementary history of the United States . ns wasa boy captured at Worcesterl(mg before who had learnedto speak their language. Theysaid that by and by we shouldhave to run the gauntlet,whispered the boy to Running the gaunt-let meant running betweentwo rows of men, each manstriking at the captive as heTHE CAPTURE OF HANNAH DUSTAN passcd. Find out whcrc tostrike if one would kill at a blow, whispered Mrs. Dustan. Thatnight they camped on an island in the Merrimack just above Con-cord, New Hampshire. The two women and the boy each tooka tomahawk, and, gliding silently from one sleeping Indian toanother, struck the fatal blow. With ten Indian scalps to provethe deed, they made their way back to their friends. A few years later an attack was made upon Deerfield, Massa-chusetts. It was burned and a large number of captives takenon the long march to Canada. Many of them died on the way, orwere killed by the savages because they could not travel over thesnow and ice as fast as the others. One Uttle Deerfield girl finally. THE STRUGGLE WITH THE FRENCH 121 married an Indian. Years afterwards, she and her brave andtheir children made several visits to her old home. One Sundayher relatives persuaded her to put on a gown and bonnet and goto church; but as soon as she came back, she tossed them off andwent back to her Indian blanket and her Indian wigwam. After a time of peace, word came across the ocean that Franceand England were at war again. The governor of Louisburg, a New Eng-fortress on Cape Breton Island, heard the news first, and before {fon a^eainstBoston knew that war had been declared, he burned a little Eng- Louisburglish fishing village. The New Engianders were indignant, and intheir wrath they determined to capture Louisburg. A skilled commander would have hesitated, for Louisburg was
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