Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . -reasonable time. It wasINDIAN CHIEF AND HIS WIGWAM. certainly providential that it happened to be hidden there in the bushes, and so he recog-nized the incident. When he reached the fort at last, and duly madehimself known to his former comrades, they looked upon him as uponone risen from the dead. He was some time engaged in satisfying themof his identity, and afterwards in narrating his story from beginningto end. It grieved him to learu that his wife and children had gone, but it. DANIKL BOONE. 51 was too late to help that. He se
Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . -reasonable time. It wasINDIAN CHIEF AND HIS WIGWAM. certainly providential that it happened to be hidden there in the bushes, and so he recog-nized the incident. When he reached the fort at last, and duly madehimself known to his former comrades, they looked upon him as uponone risen from the dead. He was some time engaged in satisfying themof his identity, and afterwards in narrating his story from beginningto end. It grieved him to learu that his wife and children had gone, but it. DANIKL BOONE. 51 was too late to help that. He set about directing the needed repairs forthe fort, knowing far better than the garrison what were the preparationsmaking, and what now were the many times heightened motives forinvesting and destroying it. All his energy was broiight to bear nponthis single thing. Where it was weak—at the gates, the flankers, the post-L-rns, or the bastions—he made it strong again. He infused into thesettlers an activity and enthusiasm they had not displayed since thedays when he used to arouse them to exertion before. PREPARED FOR A HEROIC DEFENSE. In the short space of ten days they were all right again, ready toreceive any sort of a visit—outside, of course—which their old enemiesmight think best to make. This time he felt sure that tlie fort wouldbe compelled to stand a siege it had never passed through before. Hehad seen with his own ejes the large preparations made by the Indiansto invest and capture it. He had heard their talk about the ma
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