. Our colonial homes. welcome. As step by step the white men ascended itscourse, sowing in their march the seeds of hamlets and villages, noother spot seemed to offer such manifold advantages as this one,where the junction of the lesser stream with the greater rivermarked out at once a geographical boundary, a strategic position,and a natural line of defence. Accordingly, a band of stout yeomen from eastern Massachu-setts settled here in the year 1670. For a few years they lived THE OLD INDIAN HOUSE 18: side by side with their more numerous and more savage neighborsin apparent harmony and good
. Our colonial homes. welcome. As step by step the white men ascended itscourse, sowing in their march the seeds of hamlets and villages, noother spot seemed to offer such manifold advantages as this one,where the junction of the lesser stream with the greater rivermarked out at once a geographical boundary, a strategic position,and a natural line of defence. Accordingly, a band of stout yeomen from eastern Massachu-setts settled here in the year 1670. For a few years they lived THE OLD INDIAN HOUSE 18: side by side with their more numerous and more savage neighborsin apparent harmony and good will. The Indians had their village,the white men theirs. The Indians hunted and fished much, butsowed little ; the white men ploughed, sowed, and reaped like theirfathers. At length the uprising of Philip of Pokanoket cast a fire-brand among these Indians. Philips emissaries had long been busyamong them. Presently they grew sullen, moody, watchful. Thenthe whites attempted to disarm them. They resisted. This was the. THE OLD INDIAN HOUSE, DEERFIELD, MASS. signal for that series of bloody encounters which laid waste thewhole valley. Deerfield was depopulated. The Indians fought likefiends incarnate ; the settlers fought for their lives. In the end the settlers remained the masters. The strugglerolled away from the desolated valley, leaving its traces on everyhand. Once more the decimated white men slathered about theirbroken hearthstones. With a courage that commands our admira-tion they set about rebuilding their homes. Taking counsel of 188 OUR COLONIAL HOMES \ their dear-bought experience, they surrounded their little villagewith a stout stockade, kept watch and ward, concerted. signals withtheir neighbors, kept their trusty muskets loaded and primed, andin all things behaved like men who knew and realized that theirlonely outpost was most truly the post of danger. Time wore on uneventfully. The remembrance of past horrorswas fast being effaced. The village grew and prosper
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