Year: 1879

Edcn was tne UlSSeSt uoy III
the school, being about fifteen
years Of age, and George was a
year or two younger. Nobody
had seen either Of them, but just
then they entered the school room
together, looking very pale and
thoroughly frightened.


1--WE saw Indians in the bushes"
Eden exclaimed, gasping for
breath, and George corroborated
the alarming news. Dime novels
were not published at that day as
at this to excite the Imagination
of children, so that Brooklyn boys
are occasionally found wandering
in New Jersey in search of In
diaus, but stories Of Indian massa.
cres were often told and the hunt
ing grounds of the shawancse
savages in the Kitrocbtinny noun
tains were near enough to Enoch
Brow MS school for those relentless
foes Of the whites to put in ap-
pearance at any time.


"You must be mistaken, boys"
the master argued, remembering
that similar stories had often boen
told by alarmed inhabitants which
proved in the end to be without
foundation. Take your looks and
We will proceed with the lessons.


4 short prayer was made by
Master Brown and then the work
Of the day began. But scarcely
were the opening exercises fin
ished when noise at the door at
tracted the attention Of fthe teach
er. Suddenly it was thrown open
and three Indians stood on the
threshold. They were decorated
with the war paint Of their tribe
and their towahawks glittered in
the morning sun. They glared in
to the room aud Master Brown
saw at a glance that their errand
vas an errand of death for him
and the helpless children under
his charge.


CONSERVATION seized the chill
dren, who were too much fright
ened even to try to escape. But
even if they had tried they could
not have succeeded, for the long
narrow windows cuL between two
logs were so high from the floor
that the little ones could not have
reached them. Hoping to save
their lives even at the sacrifice of
his own, Master Brown stepped to
the door to trip and avert the i'm
pending blow.


"Kill me. torture me if you
will" he cried in imploriDg tones,
"but spare the lives of these in
nocent children"


"Pale face, it cannot be as you
wish, zone ofthe savages answered.
1--WE came all the way from the
mountains where the sun sets TO
send you whore many of your
white brothers have gore by the
Red Mans batchet. Why should
we spare the young bucks and the
two kinds there looking cut Of
their great, round eyes? If we
did as you bid US, before the next
moon is hung in the sky the
noise of the white mans gun
would be heard in the mountains
and there would be tongues to
tell who it was that put the
schoolmaster to death. No, we
must kill all or none"


When this speech was finish ed
the Indian sprang into the room
while the others remained outside
to guard the door and give timely
notice to the fend within in case
they were discovered. The con-
test with the schoolmaster was
soon decided. The Iudian fercely
attacked him with his tomahawk K
and as Master Brown had moth
ing with which to defend himself
but his hands the battle was a
very unequal one. He fought
bravely, however, and it was not
until both his hands were disabled
and his arms broken that the fu-
rious savage was able to strike
him a fatal blow. Finally a blow
upon the head felled him to the
floor, and while be lay dying the
Indian tore the scalp from bis
skull.


The children were almost frantic
while this bloody scene was enact
ed and kept running to and fro