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 dations. In one of these skirmishes, when the whites were victorious, one of the savages fled to him for protection, whom he concealed in a little cave that had recently been discovered in the rear of his house, just large enough for a man to crawl into. He was so grateful for this act of kindness, that some years afterwards when a plot was formed by the savages for a general massacre of the whites, he stole away from his tribe to inform his benefactor and have him raise a signal from the mouth of the cave that they might spare him and his family. The humane hearted man revolted at the idea of saving his own life while his brethren were sacrificed, and he immediately set out for the wigwam of the chief bearing such messages of good will and pledges in the name of the whites, that they were deterred from their murderous purposes, and he returned in safety to exact the fulfilment of his pledges. Around this cave an enclosure was built"—

"I don't like your sentiments there, I should call the whites the savages. What business had they to come and drive off them that had more right here than they had. I'd a skinned 'em all alive an' sent 'em back to where they come from till they could come and trade like decent folks, and show that they was civilized themselves."

"Oh Kate, it makes me crawl to hear you make such expressions as skinning alive."

"Oh yes, you are very feeling then, but it wouldn't make ye feel so bad to think of the poor savages bein' driv' from their old homes they loved so well, an' had a right to."