Beadle's Dime Novels No. 142: The Sagamore of Saco — page 78: what you’re looking at

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te | 80 TRE Sa6AMORB OF BACO. pee a oi tribes, and carry the war, as of old, to the t battlefields of the Androscoggins, seout was in possession of all their plans; they would feast their warriors upon the banks of the 0, and winter at the Pool, where In- alae and white man were alike to fall in one exterminating blow. — The more cautious chiefs proposed calling upon the colonists to aid in the expedition, but this was overruled by the sagamore, who declared. the red-man able to carry on his own wars, and - strike without aid for their old council-fires, their altars and their homes. This audacity pleased the majority, which determined that the expedition should start upon the third day. They would de- scend the Saco—cross Casco Bay to the Kennebec, which river they would ascend till it*receives the Androscoggin, and thence up the latter river till the Falls of the Pejipseot (Lewiston) should be reached—thus performing the entire route by water. It was determined that two hundred picked warriors, headed by the sagamore, would be sufficient to effect the surprise and discomfiture of. the eastern alliance, which had proposed to wait till the hunting season was finished before they started up- on their warlike expedition. But the Sacos boasted that the grass never grew in the trail of their warriors, and now, headed by theiy brave and untiring sagamore, they were confident of success, But, before the tribe started upon this perilous enterprise, ac- cordiny to their wont they consulted the prophet of the Sacos, to few the tokens of the invisible powers, for an Indian, no wore than an ancient Roman, would not impiously expose the public interests of the tribe without first learning if the gods up | _ Accordingly, the chief men rted to his wigwam; they fit the cholesst venison, fish eid *esen at his threshold; then they lighted a fire upon a rock near by, and having laid beside an arrew pointing eastward, and a canoe with the paddles sgt ts in the rope direction, they seated themselves in silence - Tt was pt long before the wizard appeared, with signs of ex- ultation. Seizing the arrow, he hurled it into the air, and seemed to urge the canoe onward; he shouted in a high key words like the following: | | delete lle Winter ontlor wtecea te _. ‘Phere’s a cry tha the hill-to cry from the plain, A shriek from ess thal come bever again. tr.» “Mp, up to.the battle, but never a blow | “ip, up to the battle, but never a foe!” ‘ , The chiefs exchanged looks of doubt and ounien Phewiore ealdoiee Sobaibcione: foreed him again before tiem, but: the conniclbooks.conn