Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-06-13
eeThink of 1t, Hammer"

| VermOnG anu were SOiuS W WeSterH MiChi-
gan on visit to their son. After a little
diminishing round, the old gentleman pitch
ed into me about the "crops,p "sile," and
when found how innocent he was, I gave
him all the information I could. All at once,
as he rode along, the wife caught his arm
and exclaimed 3 ha
"Look out Samuel, or you'll be forgetting
that place were they fit"
The old man explained. He said that O
young man who came down from Canada
with them, told him to look out for the bat
tie field of Braddock's defeat as soon as he
left Detroit.
Twas going to reply that the young man
was an internal liar, but the old lady seemed
to have set her heart on seeing the spot
and the old man was so anxious, that
couldn't bear to disappoint them. When
we got down into the woods I pointed oui
the "battle field" and they put their head.
out of the windows, and took in the scene.
"Think of it, Hammer exclaimed the old
man, as he drew in his head think of them
Injuns creeping through them woods and
shooting Mr.. Braddock down dead ''
"My soul" replied the old lady, seeming
ly overcome at the idea, and she kept hel
eyes on the woods until thought she would
twist her neck off.
We got along all right for about five miles
more, and the old man wanted to know if
we weren't down pretty near the spot where
Tecumseh fell.
"Where ?" yelled, and he said that the
same young man had informed him that the
railroad ran close to the Identical spot
where the great Indian warrior fell and
slept.
'It'n be a powerful favor to me and
Samuel, if Yell pint out the spot urged
the old lady, placing her hand on my
arm.
How could go back on what that brazen
young man had said? The old folks had
made up their minds to see the spot, and if
| didn't show it to them they might worry
for weeks, and they might think the young
man had lied, or that wasn't posted in the
historic spots Of my own State. Lor' for
give me, but a mile further on pointed out
hill and said
''Behold the last resting place of the
great Tecumseh."
''Think oft, Hanner--think of it - ex-
claimed the old man Fright there is where
they got him!''
MERCY but it don't seem possible 70 she
CALCULATED, and she had to get out her snuff
box before she could recover from the
shock.
The old gentleman said he had a particular
interest in seeing the spot, because he knew
the man who had killed Tecumseh-used to
live right by him. fao @
h "He must have been an awful Injin ?''
broke in the old lady, "for the young mar
said he did't die till they had cut off his
head, and hands, and feet, and blowed che
body up with barrel of powderr'
WANTED to get away after that, fearing
that something worse was coming, but sht
insisted upon my taking pinch of snuff, and
so 1 kept my seat. We were just beyond
Brighton, when the old man came at me lik,
q steamboat, with:
"Now, then, how fur is il to the spo-
where they found the little Babes in the
Woods ?"
" wanted to get out Of it, but how could I:
That young man had deliberately lied to
those nice old folks, and I hadn't the moral
courage to tell 'em SO, and thus had to make
q liar of myself. It's awful to deceive an,
one, especially a good old man and fat and
motherly old lady, on their way to the
tomb
'That's-yes-that's the spotr' T said a.
we came to q dark piece of woods.
"Tnink O. that, Hannerr' he said, hi.
head out of the window "think of then
babies being found in there ~
Eyes. it was fearful ~ she replied .'seem.
as if could almost see them sUubbing about
in there now!''
There was another historic spot of which
the young man had told them, but they had
forgotten it and was never more thankful.
They had kept quiet until the brakeman
yelled out Lansing" and the old man bob
bed up and exclaimed:
"Lansing-Lansing-why, here's where
they hung Tom Collins, amt it,
He explained that Tom Collins, a Chicago
desperate, had murdered eleven old women
and drank their blood for his liver complaint,
and after being hunted for miles and miles,
had at length been captured at Lansing, cut
to pieces by the Infatuated populace; and
then left hanging to g tree.
had to point out the tree l: was tree
near the depot, and the tail of kite had
lodged in its branches.
"There's wharf they hung him, Hammer ~
said the old man, stretching his neck.
land there's some O. his shirt left vet ~
exclaimed the old lady, and as [ backedx.ut
of the car the good old man was remarking
that he was going to ask the train boy if he
didn't have the pamphlet Life of Tom Col
Inns so that he could get 'r-Ia" - ~.
ton.
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