The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1872-10-11

into an ambuscade, that he might then de-
feat him.
Now, Bald Eagle knew every rock and
cavern in the wild hill on Deer Creek
above spoken of, and thither lie at once
decided to go. The willy Wolf did not
know anything about the locality spoken
Of Bald Eagle knew the foe would follow
his trail. This was what he wanted, but
he likewise knew that his enemies could
not trace him until after daylight. Accor-
dinghy in half an hour after, he and his
twenty brave warriors, accompanied by
the lovely Winogene, were on their march
for the Indian Rocks. They assembled the
river hill by deer-path, and then struck
across the country for the Indian Rocks
They passed near where Dublin now stands
and arriving at Deer Greek they crossed
the stream about II quarter of mile above
the Rocks, and going down the South bank
of the Creek, they soon arrived at the place
where victory or certain death awaited
them.
The chieftain now, by the aid of the
mellow light of the full moon, soon had
his little band of warriors completely hid
and sheltered, and taking his beloved Sun
beam with him they were soon hid like.
wise. They were now all as completely
concealed as Roderick Dhu's forces were
from the ken of James Fitz James, on the
Brackenburn. They now calmly awaited
the appearance of their deadly foe, the Sun.
beam extorting promise from the braves
that none of them should shoot the Grin
ming Wolf, as she intended to do that lit
tie job herself.
~ tth. In ftn, t1,a l,ol I
the zenith, the Grinning Wolf and his band
of savage cut throats started for the Bald
Eagles camp. They approached the de-
serted hamlet with the stealth of the pan
ther, and set fire to the bark cabins, and
forming around the fire made ready to kill
the flying fugitives; but none came. They
soon saw that the game had fled and that
they were duped, at which their anger
knew no bounds. They searched for the
trail of the fugitives and soon found it by
the light of the burning cabins, but they
likewise found that they could not follow it
until after daylight. AS soon as day APP
peared they took up the trail without trou-
BILE; the Wolf never once thought of an am
buscade, but considered that he was simp-
ly following the runaways, that victory was
certain, and that the coveted booty, the
beautiful Sunbeam, would be his before
night-tall. He and his party reached the
creek and crossed it. They now pursued
the trail of the fugitives down the south
bank until within thirty yards of the base
of the Rocks, where our heroes were lying
in wait for them. When at this point a
flight of whizzing arrows, sent by unseen
hands, met the band of the Wolf and fif-
teen of his warriors with wild unearthly
yells tell to the ground. Again and again a
second and third flight of those vengeful
messengers of death, sent by strong arms,
every one of them hitting its mark. 1t was
the work of a few minutes, when all the
Wolfparty, except him and two or three of
his followers, were either killed or wound
ed. Such yelling and bowls of rage as were
now heard, some ofthe wounded were sing
ing their death song, whilst others were
gnawing their limbs, being frantic with
pain. The Wolf had not been touched his
warriors were now all down; the deadly
work was all done in few minutes; with q
howl of raSo L. -, "a, -,,-,ahouL -
hand, charged on the wild rocks. As fate
would have it he charged on the rock that
sheltered the Sunbeam. Twenty bows were
now bent and twenty arrows covered him
The braves, true to their promise to Win
ogene left him to her; when he had advan.
ced to within thirty feet of where she lay
she bent her bow and shot her arrow, which
entered his breast and passing through his
wicked heart, the barbed end coming out
at his back, with wild howl he sprang
high in the air and fell prone upon the
wild rocks, hideous looking corpse. The
victory was won and the beautiful Wilma.
gene and her party were safe. None of the
Eagles party received scratch.
Bald Eagle and his party now came
forth from their hiding places, and accord
ing to Indian custom killed the wounded
and after scalping the whole party they
left them to the wolves and vultures.-
Bald Eagle and his lovely wife lived to be
old; they were always warm friends to the
paletace, doing all they could for the com.
fort of our first settlers. When the chief
tain got old he used to tell the white set.
tiers about fighting for his wife at the In
dian Rocks.
And this tradition has been handed
down to the present day and has not, to my
knowledge, ever been reduced to writing
before. MARS.
A Hard Case in Court.