. A family flight around home. e arrows of theIndians made no such wholesale destruction of animals as ourmodern weapons. What fun to have been here then! cried Hubert; justfancy an Indian all war-paint, behind that tree, for instance! Brrrr! said Tom, shivering, Im glad he is not, though! Time and absence from the early Indian have softened somuch the general impression of his character, novels and legendshave invested it with so much romance, that he has becomean ideal sort of creature of romantic and attractive are no longer in danger of being tomahawked in New Eng-land. An Ind
. A family flight around home. e arrows of theIndians made no such wholesale destruction of animals as ourmodern weapons. What fun to have been here then! cried Hubert; justfancy an Indian all war-paint, behind that tree, for instance! Brrrr! said Tom, shivering, Im glad he is not, though! Time and absence from the early Indian have softened somuch the general impression of his character, novels and legendshave invested it with so much romance, that he has becomean ideal sort of creature of romantic and attractive are no longer in danger of being tomahawked in New Eng-land. An Indian in his paint and feathers is a rarer show than. ABOUT INDIANS. 39 a white elephant. We are therefore more disposed to pity thanto hate. But one hundred years ago, there were few men whohad no reason to hate the Indians, and there were thousandswhose cattle had been driven off, whose homes had been laid inashes by the braves of the Six Nations, who had fought withthem from behind rocks and trees, whose women had fled at the. INDIAN WEAPONS. dead of night from cabins set on fire by these relentless enemies. Before the arrival of white people in America, the Indians, without fire-arms, and without whiskey, which had a fatal influence 40 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. upon the disposition of the race, possessed, doubtless, many inter-esting traits of character. The Indian was essentially a child of nature. His life was onelong struggle, for his daily food depended on the skill with which
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