The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1844-08-28
NEW LIFE PREsERVER.
BY HOOD.
;. OF hair-b1eadth 'scapes.n Ohello.

have read somewhere of traveller, who car
ried with him a brace Of pistols, carbine, a
cutlass, dagger and an UMBRELLA, but was in
debted for his preservation TO the umbrella; it
yrappled with bush when he was rolling over a
precipice In Ike manner my friend W,
though armed with sword, rife, and hunting
knife, owed his existence to a wig!
He was specimen hunting (tor W is
tirsirate uaturalist) somewhere in the backwoods
Of America, when, happening TO light upon
dense covert, there sprang out upon hlm--n
panther or catamount-but with terrible whoop
and yell, wild Indan-one Of tribe then hos
tile to our settlers W-'s gun was mastered
in a twinkling, himself stretched on the earth,
Ahe barbarous knife, destined TO make him bald
er than Grandy's celebrated Marquis, leapcd ca
gerly from its sheath,
Conceive the horrible weapon making lis pre-
limlnary four.shes and circumgyrations; the saw
age features, made savager by paint and ruddle,
working themselves up to u demoniacal crisis OF
triumphant malignity; his red right hand cletch-
ing the shearing knife, his left tho frizzle top
knot; and then the artificial scalp coming off in
the Mohawk's grasp!
W says the Indian catchpole was, ior
some moments motionless with surprise; recov-
ering, at last, he dragged his captive along,
through brake and Jungle, to the encampment
A peculiar whoop soon brought the whole horde
TO the spot The Indian addressed them with
vehement gestures, in the course of which
W was again thrown down, the knife again
performed its circuits, and the whole transaction
was pantomimically described All Indian Sc.
dateness and restraint were overcome, The as
sembly made every demonstration of wonder
md ~. tv anI
hind part before, by hundred pair ofred hands
Capt Gullver's glove was not greater puzzle
10 the Honhyhums.
From the men, it passed to the squaws, anG
from them down to the least of the urchins
W--'s head in the mean time, frying in mid
summers sun. At length the phenomenon re-
turned into the hands of the chef-a venerable
grey beard; he examined it affesh, very atten
tively, and, after long deliberation, maintained
wth true Indian silence and gravity, made
speech in his own town that procured for the
anxious trembling captive very unexpected hon
ors In fact, the whole tribe Of women and war
riors danced round him with such unequallec
marks of homage, that even W comprenen
ded that he was not for sacrifice. He was theI
carried in triumph to taejr wgwams, his bod
daubed with their coloys Of the most honorabl,
patterns; and he was given to understand that HI
might choose any of their manageable maid
ems for squaw. Awaiting himself of this priv
lege, and SO becoming, BY degrees, more pro
fcient in their language, he learned the caus
of this extraordinary respect. hwas CONSIDERS
that be had been great warrior, that he had b
mischance of war, been overcome and tufted
but that, whether by valor Or stratagem, each c
qually estimable among the saHages, he had re
covered his liberty and his scaly
As long as W kept his own counsel, b
was safe; but trusting his Indian Delah with til
secret of his locks, it soon got wind among III
squaws, and from them became known to tn
chiefs. A solemn sitting was held at midnigf
by the chiefs, TO consider the propriety ofknocb
ing the poor wg-owner on the head but he ha
received timely hint of their intention, anc
when the tomahawk sought for him, he was OF
his way, with his life prescrver, towards BIRTHS
settlement