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The Bear Fight.—Page 238.
THE FOREST GLEN SERIES.
FOREST GLEN;
OR,
THE MOHAWK'S FRIENDSHIP.
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ELIJAH KELLOGG,
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By ELIJAH KELLOGG.
PREFACE.
The story here presented not only grasps thoseterrible vicissitudes in which the frontier life of ourforefathers was so prolific, but at the same time conveysmany useful lessons and incentives to manly effort,and much curious information in relation to a period inthe history of Pennsylvania, when her soil was occupiedby a population comprising many different races andreligious sects, having little in common, and held togetherby the fearful pressure of an Indian war.
Here we behold the strange spectacle of the Quakertilling his land, and pursuing his ordinary duties, whilehis more belligerent neighbor sleeps with the rifle withinreach of his hand, sits in the house of God with theweapon between his knees, goes armed in the funeralprocession, which is often attacked, the mourners killed,scalped, and flung into the grave of the corpse theywere about to inter.
The noble response of the Delawares to the appealof the Quakers evinces that the red man is no less[Pg 6]sensitive to kindness, than implacable in revenge;capable of appreciating and manifesting the most tend