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For, a the Iroquois, I can remember only tere the peers in cruelty of Walter Butler and the Tory Beacraft, and these were the Indian called Seth Henry, and the half-breed hag, Catrine Montour

Pondering on these things, perplexed and greatly depressed, I presently e, and found our little column halted in the open country, within a few ers looked up atof what had been going on fro the Oneida scouts, for Murphy broke out impulsively, "Sure, Captain, as that onaisy, alanna, that Elerson an' me matched apple-pipps f'r to inthrojuce wan another to that po forninst the big pine"

"Had you appeared yonder while I was talking to that belt-bearer iton past the spot where Jack Mount stood, his brief authority ended, I heard hi about the rashness of officers and the ood scalp in Quebec; and I only said: "Scold as much as you like, Jack, only obey" And so cantered forward to where Elsin sat her blackmy approach Her steady eyes welcomed, mine responded; in silence heeled our horses north once h the dust On either side stretched abandoned fields, growing up in weeds and thistles, for noere alhway of the border war dohich the tides of destruction and death had rolled for four terrible years

There was nothing to show for it save meadows abandoned toscrub, fallow fields deep in oldenrod, and asters; and here and there a charred rail or two of so since destroyed

Far away across the sand-flats we could see a ruined barn outlined against the sunset sky, but no house re to the ard far as the eye could reach However, as we entered the highhich I kneell, because noere approaching a country faht of a few Dutch roofs to the east, and presently came into plain view of the stockade and blockhouses of Schenectady, above which rose the lovely St George's church and the heavy walls and four demi-bastions of the citadel which is called the Queen's Fort

As we approached in full view of the ramparts there was a flash, a ball of white smoke; and no doubt a sentry had fired his musket, such was evidently their present state of alarm, for I saw the Stars and Stripes run up on the citadel, and, far away, I heard the conch-horn blowing, and the startled ht of our Oneidas, spread far forward in a se, then advanced very deliberately, recalling the Oneidas by whistle-signal