wounds on the field of battle? Of the many anec- flock, till she reached home. The manner of her dotes told respecting rational-looking proceedings acting on this trying occasion was afterwards of animals for the benefit of each other, I shall gathered by the shepherd from various individuals, adopt one related by Monk Lewis in one of his who had observed these extraordinary proceedings letters. "About ten days ago, [writing in Ja- of the poor animal on the road. It is painful to maica,] one of the farm-keeper's wives was going add, that she did not succeed in bringing her offhomeward through the wood, when she saw a roe- spring alive to her master's house. As a pendent buck running towards her with great speed. to this tale, take one relating to a Newfoundland Thinking that it was going to attack her with its dog, which lived a few years ago with a family in horns, she was considerably alarmed; but, at the one of the southern States of the American Union, distance of a few paces, the animal stopped, and and which had rescued one of its master's daughdisappeared among the bushes. The woman re-ters from drowning. The family had to proceed covered herself, and was proceeding on her way, in a schooner for the city of St. Augustine: they when the roebuck appeared again, ran towards her as before, and again retreated, without doing her any harm. On this being done a third time, the woman was induced to follow it, till it led her to the side of a deep ditch, in which she discovered a young roebuck unable to extricate itself, and on the point of being smothered in the water. The woman immediately endeavored to rescue it, during which the other roebuck stood quietly by, and as soon as her exertions were successful, the two animals gallopped away together."

The same measures have often been adopted by dogs on account of a master who has fallen into any kind of trouble. Leaving him, they run home, scratch at the door, and, on gaining admittance, pull the skirts of wife or servant, to induce her to come to the spot for his relief. The horse, too, sometimes shows this species of sagacious kindness. Not three months before the time when this paper was written, the horse of a man called Graham, belonging to the Stainmore collieries, came home in the evening without him. According to a local chronicler, the animal proceeding direct to the house-door, and commenced neighing, and seemed greatly distressed. Being a docile, playful animal, Graham's family did not at first take much notice of its complaints, not thinking but that Graham himself was not far distant; he, however, not arriving in a short time, and the horse still continuing its wailings, they became a little alarmed, and a person was therefore despatched on the road in search of him. He was found lying on the road near Coupland Beck, a distance of two miles from Appleby, with his head severely cut, and in an insensible state. The evening was extremely cold, and a pinching frost having set in, he would doubtless have perished had he lain much longer." It appeared that the poor man had fallen asleep, and in that state tumbled from his cart.

had embarked, and the vessel was swinging off from the pier, when the dog was missed. To quote a newspaper narrative:-" They whistled and called, but no dog appeared; the captain became restive, swore he would wait no longer, gave the order, and the craft swept along the waters with a spanking breeze, and was soon a quarter of a mile from the shore. The girl and her father were standing at the stern of the vessel, looking back upon the city, which they had probably left forever, when suddenly Towser was seen running down to the edge of the wharf with something in his mouth. With a glass, they discovered that it was his master's pocket-handkerchief, which had been dropped somewhere upon the road down to the vessel, and which he now recollected, with some compunctions of conscience, he had sent his shaggy servant back to look after. The dog looked piteously around upon the bystanders, then at the retreating vessel, and leapt boldly into the water. His master immediately pointed out the noble animal to the captain, and requested him to throw his vessel into the wind, until the dog could near them. He also offered a large sum if he would drop his boat, and pick him up; told him of the manner in which he had preserved the life of his daughter; and again offered him the price of a passage if he would save the faithful creature. The girl joined her entreaties to those of her father, and implored that her early friend might be rescued. But the captain was a savage; he was deaf to every appeal of humanity; kept obstinately on his course; and the better animal of the two followed the vessel until, his strength exhausted, and his generous heart chilled by despair, he sank among the more merciful billows."

The high degree in which animals are susceptible of attachment, needs little illustration; for every one knows the dog and horse. One is, however, less struck by the general fact, that these The sense of duty is another of the human-like animals, and some others, devote themselves to a characteristics of animals, and one of those best kindly and servile association with man, than by known. A dog will take a trust, and fulfil it as the particular friendships which certain animals well as a man. A very affecting instance was form with individuals of our species, as if from presented about two years ago by a female dog some peculiar, though inscrutable election of belonging to a shepherd near Dunning in Perth-qualities, or, it may be, merely from accidental shire. The man had bought for his master, at contact. We can even, in some instances, see this Falkirk, four score of sheep, which he imme- attended by a demonstration of an auld lang syne diately despatched homewards, under the care of feeling, such as usually attends the rencontres of his dog alone, though the flock had to go seven-human friends long separated. For example-A teen miles through a populous country. The poor few years ago, a sailor, entering a show of wild animal, when a few miles on the road, dropped beasts at Plymouth, was surprised to find a tiger two whelps; but, faithful to her charge, she drove very much agitated at his approach, acting always the sheep on a mile or two farther; then, allow- with the greater violence the nearer he came to its ing them to stop, returned for her pups, which she cage. The keeper, to whom he pointed out the carried for about two miles in advance of the circumstance, remarked that the beast must either sheep. Leaving her pups, the collie again re- be greatly pleased, or as much annoyed. Upon turned for the sheep, and drove them onwards a this the sailor went close up to the den, and, after few miles. This she continued to do, alternately a few minutes, during which the animal lashed its carrying her young ones, and taking charge of the sides with its tail, and uttered the most frightful

little spaniel, being kept in the same kennel, the larger animal manifested a great jealousy of the smaller. At length the little dog was missing, and the setter was found to have taken ill. The latter dying very quickly, was opened, when the little dog was found almost entire in its stomach.

bellowings, he discovered that it was a tiger which | before. "She will not speak to me to day," said had been brought home to England a few years Dr. Gall. Not long ago, it was stated in a Plybefore under his especial care. It now became mouth newspaper that two dogs, a setter and a Jack's turn to be delighted, as it appears the tiger was, in thus recognizing his old friend; and, after making repeated applications to be permitted to enter the den, for the purpose, as he said, of shaking a fist" with the beautiful animal, he vas suffered so to do the iron door was opened, and in jumped Jack, to the delight of himself and striped friend, and the astonishment of the lookerson. The affection of the animal was now shown by caressing and licking the pleased sailor, whom he seemed to welcome with the heartiest satisfaction; and when the honest tar left the den, the anguish of the poor animal appeared almost insupportable. Was not this the very same sentiment which makes us sing, "Should auld acquaintance be forgot?" But animals of much lower grade will strike up friendships with men. There is an anecdote of a goose which became unaccountably attached to a farmer in Ireland, insomuch that it raised a joke at his expense. One day it followed him to a court, which he was attending upon public duty, and so irritated was he, that he twisted his whip about its neck, aad swung it round till he thought it dead. Some time after, when he was lying dangerously ill, he was horror-struck to observe the same goose looking in at his window. His daughter told him it had waited there, with an air of the greatest concern, during the whole time of his illness. Of course there was no standing this disinterested attachment, and the poor goose was instantly admitted into favor.

This predilection of animals for particular persons was once the means of deciding, very amusingly, a case before a court of justice. It was a Dublin police-office, and the object of dispute was a pet parrot, which had been stolen from a Mr. Davis, and sold to a Mr. Moore. The plaintiff, taking the bird upon his finger, said, "Come, old boy, give me a kiss," which the parrot instantly did. A youth in the defendant's interest, remarked that this proved nothing, as the parrot would kiss anybody. "You had better not try,' remarked the plaintiff. Nevertheles the young man asked the parrot to kiss him. Poll, Judaslike, advanced as if to give the required salute, but seized the youth's lip and made him roar with pain. This fact, and the parrot's obeying the plaintiff in several other requisitions, caused it to be instantly ordered into the possession of its original master.

Human foibles, too, are participated by animals. The dog, I grieve to say, is capable of both envy and jealousy. A gentleman, calling one day upon Dr. Gall, at Paris, found that most original observer of nature in the midst of birds, cats, and dogs, which were his pets. "Do you think,' said he, turning his eyes to two beautiful dogs at his feet, which were endeavoring to gain his attention-" do you think that these little pets possess pride and vanity like man?" "Yes," said the other, "I have remarked their vanity frequently." "We will call both feelings into action," said he. He then caressed the whelp, and took it into his arms. "Mark that mother's offended pride," said he, as he walked quietly across the chamber to her mat. "Do you think she will come if I call her?" "Oh yes," answered his friend." "Not at all." He made the attempt; but she heeded not the hand she had so earnestly endeavored to lick but an instant

Revenge is not a conspicuous animal passion. The incapacity of deep impressions is perhaps a preventive to it. But it is not quite unknown. James Hogg tells a story of a dog which was much annoyed by the persecutions of a larger animal of his own species, till one day he brought a still more powerful friend, which set upon, and gave the persecutor such a worrying, as served to deter him from his cruelty in future. Mr. Thomson, in his Note-Book of a Naturalist, relates a similar circumstance as occurring some time since at the seat of a noble lord in Surrey. "In the park are two large pieces of water divided by a small isthmus, which widens considerably at one extremity, and at the time in question, a pair of swans were the occupants. A doe and her fawn, belonging to a herd of deer in the park, coming down to one of the pieces of water to drink, were immediately set upon by the swans; and the fawn, by their joint efforts, was got into deep water, and drowned. After a considerable interval of time, when the swans were one day on the wide part of the isthmus, and thus separated from their element, and at a disadvantage, a rush was made upon them by a number of the deer, which trod under foot, and destroyed one of them. bereaved doe must have had some means of communicating her loss to the other deer, and of urging them to help her in her revenge; and the most remarkable part of the transaction is, that the deer must have a kind of consciousness of the fitness of the moment, when the swans were, to a great extent, defenceless, or at least deprived of their greatest advantage, and had no means of effecting their retreat to the water."

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An anecdote was lately given in a newspaper, which would show animals to be even capable of a sense of equity; but perhaps there is some exaggeration about it. A gentleman, visiting a menagerie at Penrith, found there a fine lioness with two cubs. While he was observing her, the keeper handed in a sheep's head to the cubs, which instantly began to quarrel over it, as if each desired exclusive possession of the prize. In the midst of the turmoil the lioness rose and advanced, and with two well-directed cuffs, sent them cowering into the corners of the den. She then lay down, and deliberately dividing the spoil into two equal parts, assigned one to each of her young ones; after which, without taking a morsel to herself, she retired, and lay quietly down again. If the fact was exactly as thus related, it certainly forms one of the most curious illustrations of animal humanity which we have on record.

But, it might be asked, what class of ordinary human actions is not imitated by animals? A gentleman comes home late at night, and uses the knocker to gain admission; a cat belonging to a friend of ours used to do the same. A weary pedestrian rejoices to get a cast in a passing omnibus; in the Magazine of Natural History (1833,) is an anecdote of a dog which, being in like cir

* Medical and Physical Journal, November, 1829.

ingenious qualities of animals, as they actually are, seeing in them the hand of a Divine author, and something which even we ourselves may occasionally imitate with advantage.

From Chambers' Journal.

ADVENTURES OF DANIEL BOONE.

which, in the elder world, passed long before history existed. It is the story of Jew and Canaanite-as far as that was a mere conflict for land-brought almost before our living eyes.

cumstances, came into such a vehicle on one of the London thoroughfares, and could not be induced to come out, till he voluntarily left it at a place which seemed to be his home. An innkeeper's son will take a drive for half a stage in one of his father's coaches, and come back in another; this also did Ralph, a famous raven of the Elephant and Castle public house; he knew all the coach-drivers who plied at that inn, and would take short jaunts on Ir does not seem to us many years since we the coach-top with them, till he met some other read in the papers an obituary notice of Daniel coach coming the contrary way, when he would Boone, the founder of the state of Kentucky. change coaches, and return. To pass to something Need we say what Kentucky now is? A state as very different:-The persecuted Covenanters, when large as Scotland, fertile and beautiful, and conmet for worship in the lonely glens of Ayrshire, taining not much less than a million of people. used to plant a sentinel to watch the approach of Yet the first white man who set himself down to the dragoons. This also do the red-deer in the live in this grand country, only died at the end of Highlands. The youngest of the herd is set to the reign of George III.; so rapidly does the world watch, while the rest browse; and if he leave his advance in some of its districts. Boone's history post, they butt him till he shows he is corrected. is interesting, because it realizes almost in our own Men make hay-with and without favor of sun-day some of those first processes of civilization shine-knowing it is needed for winter store. The marmot of the Altaic mountains makes hay also, to serve as winter fodder. He plies it in stacks as high as a man, and the selection of herbs for the purpose is far beyond what human hay- The spring of 1769 rose calmly over the broad makers can pretend to. "If at first you don't suc- woodlands which lay immediately beyond the ceed," says the moralist, "try, try, try again." mountains to the west of Virginia. It was a The spider did this nine times in the sight of the beauteous wilderness, known as yet only to the fugitive Bruce, and taught him to regain a king- red Indian, but abounding in game and wild fruits, dom. So also has the lion been seen, after failing and whatever can form a temptation to man seekin a leap at his prey, to go back to try it over ing for a residence. At that time there lived in again, though the prey was gone, as anxious to Yadkin valley, in North Carolina, a hardy peasant investigate the cause of failure, and to train him- of about thirty-seven years of age, a native of self up to the proper pitch of power for a future the county of Somerset, in England, but long natuoccasion. To emigrate for better subsistence and ralized to America, and now married, with a family climate has been a practice of the human family of several children. A born hunter Daniel was, since its earliest ages. It is now fully admitted and fond of nothing but hunting-a man who prethat the migrations of animals are prompted by ferred to roam the mountain, and sleep in a cavern, precisely the same motives. And as men, in the or camp by a rushing spring, to the dull farm life infancy of navigation crept along the shore, or and the home fire-side. We say he was a born navigated from headland to headland, or, in cross-hunter; he possessed the instinct of the bee, and ing, chose the narrow passes, and those which were assisted by intervening islands, so birds of passage adopt all these facilities. Those which move from Scotland to Ireland, proceed by the straits of Portpatrick. They wait for a side wind, too, to aid them. So also Capri is used as a resting-place in crossing the Mediterranean; as the bishop knows by the tithe of quails, which is said to form an important part of his revenue. In what, moreover, does the return of continental tourists in winter, each to his particular brick dwelling in London, differ from the resumption of particular residences by the swallows in spring The absence of title-deeds and rent makes the only distinction. There is even some inscrutable means of communicating ideas amongst animals. The deer, in the anecdote already given, must have had a talk about the swans. Even creatures of different families, as cows and horses, have been ascertained to interchange their thoughts.

could go to his own dwelling in a bee-line from any point to which his wanderings might carry him. Fatigue, hunger, and exposure, he could bear like any Indian. Strong, but light, active as a deer, courageous, but cautious, kind, silent, thoughtful, he was the very man to act the part of pioneer. Two years before the above date, a man named Finlay had gone afar in the land of the red man upon a mercantile expedition. Him Daniel sought out, and learned that of a truth there was a country to the north-west where buffalo swarmed like flies in summer, and where the wild turkey and the deer were scarce worth wasting powder upon. He meditated and dreampt upon it for a year, talked with his wife about it, who endeavored to drive it from his mind; and finally, tightening his belt, and putting a new edge upon his knife, he shouldered his rifle, hade his little family good-by, and, in company with five comrades, started in quest of the country of Kentucky.

There is a disposition amongst us to deny all Finlay led the way. For five weeks did the that assimilates animals to ourselves, as if there little band toil on and on through hill and valley, were something derogatory in it. Miserable pride gushing stream and tangled woods, enduring all and delusion, to suppose there can be any good in the inclemency of the elements, till at length they battling off one of God's facts! When I hear of came to the Red river, a branch of the Kentucky. men endeavoring to extinguish the idea of animal For months they hunted with success; but at intellectuality and sentiment, by calling it instinct, length, in December, Boone and one of his comI am always reminded of the weak creatures of the panions fell into the hands of the Indians, from desert, which get their heads into a bush, and whom they only escaped by stratagem. then think that they cannot be seen. What imag- turning to their camp, they found it deserted by inable benefit can there be in any such falsity! the rest. Determined to persevere, they remained Rather let us acknowledge the beautiful and in it, using great precautions against the hostile

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Indians; until Squire, a brother of Boone, joined him with another man, and entered upon the same kind of life. A few months after, by the death of one man and the desertion of another, the two Boones were left alone; and thus they continued to be for several months, when Squire was compelled to return to the settlements for a supply of ammunition, and Daniel was left without a dog for company-the sole white man in all that vast region.

whites were victors: but six dead men, and one badly wounded, gave them an idea of the nature of frontier life. Among the dead was Daniel's The party retreated, and Boone spent eldest son. another year in inactivity. During this time landspeculators and surveyors poured into the land of Kentucky, and roused the hostility of the Indians to a high pitch. A party of eight hundred of them were only saved from destruction by Boone's undertaking, at the request of the governor of VirIt is impossible for men who have grown up in ginia, (the Earl of Dunmore,) to bring them off; our tame civilization to enter into the feelings of in which duty he was perfectly successful. The contention between the colonists and the one so situated. Many hundred miles from all to whom he could look for aid; in a boundless wood, mother country was now coming to a head; and it filled with subtle and cruel enemies; dependent was in the midst of terrors, inspired by the policy upon his gun, yet with a scanty store of ammuni- of the British in employing the Indians as allies, tion; without a comrade, or the hope of one-and that the colonization of Kentucky took place. still contented and cheerful, nay, very happy. James Harrod was the first to build a house in that Every day he changed his position; every night region; this was in 1774. Then one Richard he slept in a different place from the one he had Henderson, a Carolinian, by Boone's assistance, occupied the night before; constantly in danger, made a treaty with the Cherokees for certain lands he was forced to be constantly on his guard; but lying between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivfreedom, the love of nature, the excitement of ers, where it was proposed to establish a colony. peril, and the pleasures of the chase, appear to The ground had still to be fought for with other have repaid him for all his trials, toils, and watch-tribes; but, in spite of all obstacles, a fort of fulness. One circumstance, which helps us to block-houses and cabins was planted in the sumexplain Boone's security while among the bands mer of 1775, at Boonesborough-the pioneer workof roaming savages, and, as we should suppose, in ing with his axe in one hand and his rifle in the hourly dread of losing his life, was this: the for- other. A sort of legislative council made laws for ests of Kentucky, at that early period, were filled the new settlement, which was regarded as an offwith a species of nettle, which, being once trodden shoot from the state of Virginia. on, retained for a long time the impression of the foo, even a turkey might with ease be tracked in it This weed the Indians, numerous and fearless, took no pains to avoid, while the solitary hunter never touched, it it thus became to him a sure and easy means of knowing the presence, position, and numbers of his enemies, without betraying his own whereabouts. There is an anecdote of Boone, referrible to a different period, which gives a striking idea of such a stealthy life as he now led. He had approached the Licking river from the west, at the same time that another adventurer, Simon Kenton, had reached the borders of the valley

from the east.

Boone then returned to his family, which, with three others, he brought into Kentucky in September. The four women of this party-Mrs. Boone, Mrs. M'Gary, Mrs. Denton, and Mrs. Hogan— were the first of white complexion who entered the country-the "mothers of the west." The war just then breaking out, and all the horrors of Indian hostility impending, the heroism of these women deserves especial honor.

We pass over much detail as to the various settlements which were formed, and entirely overlook the doings of a remarkable man, George Rogers Clark, who had much to do with the infancy of Each paused to reconnoitre, before Kentucky. It soon became necessary to keep a he left the covert of the woods; and each ascer-careful watch upon the movements of the Indians. tained the presence of another human being in the All along the border the impression gained neighborhood. Then commenced a process on the strength that the savages, instigated and backed The hated race of "cabiners,` part of each for learning who the other was, with- by the British, would suddenly swoop down and out revealing himself; and such was their mutu- lay all waste. ally baffling power of concealment, that forty-eight those speculators who came out to obtain a prehours passed before either could satisfy himself emption right by building a cabin and planting a crop; the wretched traders who were always wanthat the other was not an Indian, and a foe! Squire Boone returned at the end of June, dering about the frontier; the hunters, who were (1770,) and the two brothers continued to hunt to-revelling among the countless herds of game, now gether. Meanwhile a band called the Long Hunt- for the first time seen-all began, during the winers, led by Captain James Knox, entered the terri-ter and spring of 1776, to draw closer to the statory on the south, and spent some time in it; but tions. And within these stations men sat round Boone knew nothing of their proceedings. He and his brother remained about the vale of the Kentucky till the ensuing March, and then returned home, in order to bring more settlers, including Daniel's family.

the fire with loaded rifles, and told their tales of adventure and peril with new interest, as every sound reminded them how near their deadly enemies might be. And from hour to hour scouts came in with rumors of natives seen here and In the autumn, Boone was passing again into there; and parties of the bold rangers tightened Kentucky, with five families besides his own, and their belts, and left the protection of their forts, to forty other men, when, upon the 10th of October, learn the truth of these alarms. But there was unlooked-for as thunder from a clear sky, a band one who sat at such times silent, and seemingly of Indians poured upon the rear of the little emi- unheeding, darning his hunting-shirt, or mending grant army a deadly fire. Women shrieked, chil- his leggins, or preparing his rifle-balls for use; dren squalled, the cattle broke and ran, horses and yet to him all eyes often turned. Two or reared and plunged, the young men drew their three together, the other hunters started by dayrifles to their shoulders, and the old "treed" in-light to reconnoitre: silently he sat working until stantly. A few moments decided the matter: the nightfall. Then noiselessly he went none saw

peace.

able to hold out till relieved.

him go. But when they observed him gone, they | der and shot, so that, unless relief should come would say, "Now we shall know something sure, soon, it seemed inevitable that they should have to for old Daniel's on the track." And when, by surrender. The required ammunition could only and bye, some one yet wakeful saw the shadow of be got two hundred miles, off, across a wild and Boone, as he reëntered the cabin, he found, as mountainous country. Yet he resolved to make usual, that the solitary scout had learned all the attempt; and he succeeded. Over mountain that was to be known, and the watchful slept in and vale, through tangled wood and brake, this man sped his way with two companions, and on In July the storm broke upon the poor colonists, the tenth day he was once more within the fort. most of whom fled before the wrath of the Shaw-It is pleasant to know that the party was thus anese and Cherokees, leaving only a few determined little bands in the forts. It was a terrible At the beginning of 1778 there were but three time; yet Daniel Boone was never disınayed. stations left, containing in all a hundred and ten One day his daughter and two other young girls men; but the Indians had been baffled, and forced were amusing themselves in a skiff on the Ken- to retire behind the Ohio; so that a small breathtucky, while several of the male settlers looked ing-time was afforded to the settlers. At this time on. Suddenly they felt the boat taking a direc- Boone was compelled to go, with thirty men, to tion for the opposite shore. A lurking Indian had the Blue Licks, in order to prepare salt for the use swum in, and caught hold of it, and the poor chil- of his people. He had succeeded so far in his obdren quickly found themselves prisoners amongst a ject, when a band of Indians fell upon him as he band who had posted themselves in a little thicket was hunting singly in the woods. He fled, but close to the river. The settlers heard their scream was soon overtaken, and made prisoner. His as they were caught and hurried off. It was some companions, obeying gestures made by him at a time before Boone, and a little party of friends, distance, surrendered, and the whole party was could cross to commence a pursuit, so that the In- then marched off to a British post, where several dians got the start for several miles. At daybreak officers interceded for the ransom of Boone, but he recovered their trail, but soon lost it again in a without success, for the chief had taken a fancy to thick wood, to penetrate which would have sadly him, and determined to make him one of themimpeded him. Life and death, freedom or captiv-selves. Boone was actually obliged, for some ity, hung upon the right use of every moment. months, to act the part of a Shawanese Indian, Boone was not long at a loss: turning southward with his companions, so as to leave the track upon his left, having carefully observed its general direction, and feeling sure that the captors would take their prisoners to the Indian towns upon either the Scioto or Miami, he boldly struck for-their games and romps; shot as near the centre of ward, and travelled with all speed thirty miles or more; then turning at right angles towards the north, he looked narrowly for marks of the passage of the marauders. It was a bold and keen device, and the event proved it a sagacious one; for, after going a few miles they came upon the Indian trail in one of the great buffalo paths. Inspirited with new hope and strength, the whites pushed forward quickly, but quietly, and on the alert, lest unexpectedly they might come upon the red men. And well was it that they used great caution; for when, after going ten miles, they at length caught sight of the natives as they were leisurely, and half-stripped, preparing their dinner, the quick-Boonesborough, and not a friend by the way. eyed sons of the forest saw them as soon as they were themselves discovered. Boone had feared that, if their approach was known, the girls would he killed instantly, and he was prepared for instant action. So soon, therefore, as the savages were seen, he and his companions fired, and then the whole body rushed forward so suddenly, as to cause their opponents to take to their heels, without waiting for scalps, guns, knives, mocassins, or blankets; and the three terrified girls were recovered unhurt.

and to affect a reconciliation to their habits. He was made a son in some family, and caressed by father and mother, brothers and sisters, till he was thoroughly sick of them. Yet, to appearance, he was cheerful and happy. He took his part in

the target as a good hunter ought to do, and yet left the savage marksmen a chance to excel him; and smiled, in his quiet eye, when he witnessed their joy at having done better than the best of the Long Knives. He grew into favor with the chief, was trusted, treated with respect, and listened to with attention. After some months of captivity, he was called upon to accompany a salt-making party to Chillicothe; there he saw a body of 450 painted warriors, whom he guessed to be on their way to Boonesborough, to make final work of it. Could he do nothing to save his family and friends? It was 160 miles of wild country to

Yet it was necessary he should try. So, on the morning of the 16th June, he stole away without any breakfast, leaving an Indian father and mother inconsolable for his loss. Over hill and valley he sped, for four successive days, forty miles a day, eating but one meal all the way. Such power there is in the human frame of withstanding all fatigue and hunger when the soul is alive and strong within us.

He reached Boonesborough-and where was his wife? Why did she not rush to meet him? For two years the gallant Kentuckians main- Bless your soul," said his old companions, as tained their posts amidst incredible hardships and they hailed him like one risen from the dead, and dangers. It became difficult to supply themselves shook his hand till it tingled, "she put into the with food, as there was hardly any safety for cat-settlements long ago; she thought you was dead, tle; and in hunting, men were frequently cut off Daniel, and packed up, and was off to Carolina, to by the prowling enemy. One day, as the women the old man's. There was no time for regrets, of Logan's fort were milking the cows, attended for the Indians were expected. Days, however, by a guard of men, the Indians made a sudden at- passed without showing them; and it was then astack, and killed several persons. Such incidents certained that they were brought to a stand by his were very harassing. The commander of this flight, believing that he must have given warning. fort, after being beleaguered by the savages for of their approach. Some weeks after, learning some weeks, found himself running short of pow- that the country was clear of the Indians, he start