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214 but sparsely timbered, afforded a far view of the country about. By day and night watchers, stationed on the heights and at the  entrance of the grassy pocket, formed a complete cordon about the encampment. Attack, should it come, would naturally come from  the valley, and in that case it would be simple  enough for the Wachoosetts, should they  choose flight rather than battle, to slip back  across the hill toward the east.

Toward sunset of the second day in the new village, David went down the slope  toward where the spring burbled from beneath the twisted roots of a great ash tree. His sunburn still pained him and many small blisters had come on his shoulders. Three squaws were filling kettles at the spring, and to one of them he made known  his desire for laving his body. When she at last understood what it was he wished, the  woman took much delight in filling her kettle  and emptying it over his shoulders, a service  soon entered into by the other squaws, who,  whatever their opinion of such procedure  might have been, gained much amusement  thereby and plied their kettles so diligently  that the boy was soon choking and sputtering, to the entertainment of a near-by picket.