Beadle's Dime Novels No. 142: The Sagamore of Saco — page 77: what you’re looking at

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a hunting-grounds. - At lengtly they made alliance with the Ken-; nebecs a Penobscots, and we in turn showed the sole of the foot in pluee of the white of the eye.” | The war-club of the warrior smote the ground, and his arm shook with as lhe recalled this hour of defeat. “ Listen ! e rallied again; we burned the village of the Androscoggins, at the top of the Pejipscot, where the great waters pour themselves in one continuous flood, as the young brave has described. The women sprung with their children inte the boiling waters beneath. The warriors, few in number, stood on the rocks below. * Listen! One wate the warriors were gone. We shot our arrows into their midst, but the rocks above impeded their flight, and there stood the band beneath in one sol d mass, and yet their numbers became less, till all were gone but a youth, who had all the while stood in front amidst the spray. “Listen! He stood there and sung the song of the warrior ; he spread his arms, as if he embraced the waters, and we saw his body dashed from rock to rock, till it was lost in the gulf below.” __A murmur ran through the assemblage; the old man bowed of = dauntless dead, and went on: “Listen! I waited suns and moons around Pejipscot; my eyes never lost sight of the spot at which the warriors. disap- At length, one morning, just as the sun tipped the tops of the ancient pines with fire, | saw a warrior issue from the spray. He cast an eager glance to the sky, and earth, and water, and before I could save him, he too plunged himself adown the cataract. _ “Listen! A Saco chief is tireless. I waited and watched till, one by one, the Androscoggins, thin and powerless, showed ves amid the spray, were lost in the flood below,” The Sagamore of Saco arose to lis fect, as the old chief ceased to __ There is a chamber under the falls, my father, is there “Thon hast well divined, my son! And there the squaw- men who fear the war-club and the arrow, hide their wolfish bones.” 4 Androscéggins have joined the Terrentines and Ken- nebecs, and will descend upon the Sacos with all their power, Let us not wait thelr coming: Fae se mone, Sab. will spring upon their path Ii anther upe ° The y iefs rose to their f LY nd seiponded by —e bow-strings in token of a “ We will avenge the blood of our warriors; we will reassert our power over the And zins.” Buch were the words of the young braves. » It was decided, us at one voice, to anticipate the warlike comicbooks.com