The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-08-19

De Grais, Hanyost; and French .,
teer were holly urging their way
hunted warrior ground his teeth wia
when he heard the voice of the tro,,
Fleming in the glen below him; and
ing from crag to crag, he circled bs
knoll, and planted his foot by the ~
a blasted oak that shot its limits ,b,
cavern, just as his wife had reach,
spot, and pressing her babe to her
sunk exhausted among the flow,,S
waved in the moist breath of thec,,
chanced that at that very instant, D,
and his followers had paused bepe,..
opposite side of the knoll, from wb..
ken surface the foot of the flying In&
disengaged a stone, which crackioo
the branches, found its way through,
ravine into the glen below. mi
Frenchmen stood in doubt for m.
The musqueteer, pointed in the a
whence the Stone had rolled, turned
ceive the order of his officer. III.
lier, who had made one step in adj,
a broad rock between them, leanr
it, pistol in hand, half turned tovr
follower; while the scout, who sloo
est out from the steep bank, bend
ward TO discover the mouth of the car
have caught glimpse of the sinking
, just as the shadowy form of her n
was displayed above her. God he'll
now, bold archer! Thy quiver i, !
thy game of life is nearly up; the
hound is upon thee; and the scdI
; whose plumes now futter in the !
: will soon be twined in the fngen
! vengeGul renegade. Thy wife
r hold! The noble savage has still one
: left!
4 Disabled, as he thought hima
| Mohawk had dropped his bow in hi,
His last arrow was still gripped inh
: ding fingers; and though his stlfened
: forebore the use Of it to the best adv
j. the hand of Kiodago had not yet
: power. The crisis which it takes
e to describe, had been realized by hI
: instant. He saw how the Frel
S inexperienced in wood-craft, were
: he saw, too, that the keen eye of I
/. had caught sight of the object of h
n suit, and that fufther flight was b
5 while the scene of his burning villag
$ distance, inAamed him with hate
e towards the instrument of his mis-
S Bracing one knee upon the flinty roc
a the muscles of the other swelled
S whole energies of his body were c
$ in that single effort, Kiodago aim
}. treacherous scout, and the twangil
t string dismisses his last arrow upo
k rand. The hand of the spirit cou
J, have guided that shaft! it misses it
f WANEYo smiles upon the brave
9 and the arrow, while it rattles
d against the cuirass of the French
b glances towards the victim for who
/, intended, and quivers in the heart
t, yost The dying wretch grasped th
T, chain of the chevalier, whose
d changed among the rocks, as the II
d rolling down the glen together
e Grais was not unwilling to aban
pursuit when the musqueteer, conf
t assistance, had disengaged him,
t and bloody, from the embrace of Il
5 ming corpse.
: What more is there to add.
: wildered Europeans rejoined their C
: who were on their march from III
9 they had desolated; while Kiodago d
e from his eyrie to collect the flgil,
t vors of his baud, and, after bur,
S slain, to wreak terrible vengeao
l their murderers; the most of who
l cut off by him before they Joined +
! body of the French army. The
} DE Frotenac, returning to Canac
soon afterwards, and the existeno
: half blood daughter was forgotten.
though among the dozen old famili