The daily gazette., 1877-10-30
The Skull at the Door Post
AN OLD MANS REMINDER OF AN
INDIAN STORY THAT HIS FAITH
Err USED TO TELL.

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Err USED TO TELL.
ELMIRA-A human skull lay on a
bracket by the side of the door of large
arm house Oh the banks of the ChemuEg
river, and pet ground squirrel frisked
in and out OF it. An old man, in shirt
sleeves, was scattering corn from basin
to chickens in the yard. A shepherd dog,
grizzly and fat, lay on the porch, doing
on the edge of bright square of sun
shine.
"Will your dog bite, sir?" said to
the old man.
He put his hand up to his ear and
shouted, "Hey? am leetle deaf"
"Will your dog bite ?" and the echo
on the other side of the river came to my
aid and repeated the query in different
stages of incompletion. "Will your dog
bite, your dog bite-dog bite-bite?"
"Oh Lord, !" said the old man. "He
hain't got tooth in his head"
So walked up to the skull and gave it
| a closer inspection. In the middle OF
the forehead was small hole. The old
man called "Dickie! Dickie" The
chipmunk skipped out of one of the
eyes and mounted to the top of the
skull.
"That's an Injin chiefs skull, said the
old mali. "There used to be lots OF In
iiHs round here, you know. Right over
yunder, not more'n two miles, is where
General Sullivan cleaned out the Six
Nations in the battle of Baldwin's creek
Brant used to hang out round here quite
common, and Red Jacket eat and sleept
many a time right where we're standing
now. That skull belonged to Seneca
chief they called the Long Wolf. /
don't know what they called him that
fur, fur he wasn't very long, though he
we're wolf enough, I've heard my father
say"
The old man was talkative, and l had
only to listen to get the story of Long
Wclfs skull
"My father was a sCjer in the Revolu-
tioD, and fit at Bald'in's creek. This
h'yer Long Wolf used to say he done a
good deal of the plannin' for Brant. Any
how Long Wolf scalped folks at Mini
sink, way down in Orange county, and
helped slaughter the militia of the coun-
ty at the Delywar' Highlands He was
in all them massy crees in Delywar' coun-
ty and helped to clean out the Chester
Valley settlements. | don't know wheth-
er you ever heerd of them places or not,
but my father used TO know all about
'em, and I've heerd him tell heap OF
stuff about fightin' Injuns. Onct the In
iins, with Long Wolf at their head, at
tackled the Harpersfield settlement in
Delywar county. There was some friend
ly Iniius around there then, and Long
Wolf took young squaw belonging 10
'em and shot and scalped her. He done
that because she was the squaw OF an
adopted son of the Iijin Chief Corn
planter, who was peaceable, and didn't
approve of the Ipjtls soin' about the
country cleanin out the whites. Corn
planters adopted sou and Long Wolf
was the biIterest kind of enemies, and
the saliaw was killed to spite young Corn
painter. My father knowed him well,
and used to tell lots of his advent ures.
Young Cornplanter didn't know nUttln'
about the massycree of his squaw for
some time, because he didn't belong in
thaL part of the country, and the squaw
had been sent by HIM to the Dely war
county settlements to warn 'em against
lhe comm massycre. Lord il you only
could have heerd my father tell OF some
of the yillaius that used to come down
ON Line settlers before thsy know'd it,
hoopm' and slingin' tommyha"kS and
slasliln' scapin ives into every head
they seeu if 1t only had hair enough On
it to get Il nold on.
nWeIl, when Young Cornplanter heard
n, the murder of his squaw, he natral liy
got mad, and my father used to say he
swore hy all the Great Spirits and tappy
huulin' grounds they was that he'd be
even win Long Wolf fore h" died and
notbiu'd make hun even hut che me o
+ he murderin' chief By an by these In
i'm m1,,,c cres got to b. so common that
tiin'rill ,Wash'nton ,made up his mind to
clean B. .aut and his wary1rS out don't
raroIl.ct this myself, o course, but my
rather know'd the whole thing, and used
tn tell. Gin'ral sullivan We're sent up n
70 ~ tbt. Wyomin' region to follow up the
Jniins u he'd been raisin the devil do %n
thar; an Gln'ral Clinton were to come
down the Slsky yhanner an meet him snmr
ro,,nd rU hyer. This were Young Corn
planters chance. Long Wolf were al. at
The head o. rassel o. Senecas, an, they
M, t." 11rawlin' round BaId'inS creek, on