Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-10

further up the river and thither
they went the next morning, their
lnJln guide going with them. They
received an affectionate welcome
from her uncle and family. Grand
mother stood the journey fust rate,
as they travelled slow and rested
often, and took comfort on the way,
exceptin' the fright from the wild
animals, and the Injins with the cap
tive children; and even then she
had such trust in grandfather that
she didn't think any harm could be-
fall her or him either. Their Injin
friend remained day or two and
then started back thro' the long
woods to the locality they had come
from, taking with him message to
their parents telling of their adven-
lures and safe arrival at her uncle's
in the Grants. Grandfather took up
some land next to her uncle's, and
Jinin' on TO another Scotchman's,
John McKatham's, who had lately
emigrated there. He made a clearin'
and built comfortable log house,
where they lived and raised up a
large family. In a year or so grand
father went back down to seq his
folks, neighboring settler going
with him on like visit. H err folks
came back with him and settled
close by, and also a married sister
and brother. Tall Moose joined 'em
to help steer 'em from danger on
their journey thro' the long woods.
A few years after his parents had
passed away, he made visit to his
old home where one of his sisters
and brother still lived, and
brought back his trunk and table
and bureau he'd made for his sweet
heart out O. the Kings tree, you
see there" And reaching to the old
trunk and lifting the cover, Uncle
Ez remarked, = good many years
ago, when grandfather had got to
be an old man, twas the year lthe
state was took into the Union, while
some choppers were saving and
splitting up big pine on Dummer-
meadows, their ak or saw hit some
thing gritty, and they looked and
found, deep in the crotch of limb,
under the bark with the wood grown
over it, an old arrow head. They
took m sawed out a piece O. wood
it was in and brought and showed it
to grandfather who lived in that
neighborhood. Grandfather went
with them to the spot where the
tree stood, and he remembered about
the arrow Tall Moose shot that
lodged in the tree, and told 'em the
story. They told grandfather he
could have the piece O. wood with
the arrow in it, that it belonged to
him norm anybody else. And here
it isl" Uncle Ez exclaimed, as he
took it out of the trunk and handed
it to his visitors. A piece of wood
: nearly a foot through in length and
thickness, with the head of the ar
row just sticking out.
That there arrow so long KEEP
locked in the arm o that tree till it
was part ont, is precious keepsake
of the Injin, Tall Moose, and of
grandfather's and grandmother's
honeymoon journey. That and the
old trunk, like the Union, are one
and inseparable. That trunk" he
added, was afterwards carried by
, father in the war of the Revolution
. as mess trunk. | don't know what
King George would ha' thought if
he'd known that one O. his marked
trees, or his fathers, was being used
for sech disloyaI purpose as that O.
, being made into a trunk to carry
the necessities O. one O. his Majesty's
. rebels"
:, OLD tt.
: "Yas," continued Uncle Ez, my
father was one of the boys that help
y tuck Old III. I've hearn father tell
n how the boys was mustered at Cas-
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