Striking an Indian fair
between the eyes, it clove his skull as if it had been wax; and
striking another on the shoulder, cut through the flesh and bone as if
they were but the green leaves of the trees above, Fluellina sunk down
by the feet of her husband in prayer, while he, changing his knife to
his right hand, waited the shock of the coming avalanche! So terrible
did the exasperated Huron appear, that the entire party of Shawnees
paused out of sheer horror of closing in with him. Wounded and
bleeding as he was, they knew that he would carry many of their number
to the earth, before his defiant spirit could be driven out of him.
And at scarcely a dozen feet distant, the craven, cowardly wretches
poured a volley from their rifles upon both him and the kneeling woman
beside him.
[Illustration: So terrible did the exasperated Huron appear, that the
entire party of Shawnees paused out of sheer horror.]
Oonomoo did not leap or yell; but with his eyes still fixed upon his
enemies, and his knife still firmly clutched in his hand, commenced
slowly sinking backward to the earth. The Shawnees saw it, and one of
them sprung forward, as if to claim his scalp, but he fell howling to
the ground, prostrated by a ball from the undaunted Niniotan who still
maintained his place behind his tree. His companions were in the act
of moving forward, to avenge the deaths of hundreds of their comrades,
when the tramp of approaching men was heard, and a clear voice rung
out: "This way, boys! I see the infernal copper-heads through the
trees.
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