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Updated: May 27, 2025
It looked, indeed, as if the redmen were shrewd enough to make allowance for this fact, judging from the way the attempt turned out in each instance. It was the purpose of Lena-Wingo, in heading up stream, to break through this chain that seemed thrown around them, and there appeared no other way of doing it.
"What is the use of taking thought for the morrow?" asked Rosa. "Has not Lena-Wingo proved himself able to provide us with all we want in the way of food?" "There is no denying that, but I only wanted to assist him in a simple matter; and if we are all to possess such appetites as we have shown to-night, it may not be an easy matter, after all, to keep up the quartermaster's supplies.
While Lena-Wingo was engaged in stirring and throwing more wood on the fire, Jo removed some fresh green leaves from a package that had been lying unnoticed near at hand, and within was found a large piece of roast pig! Furthermore, it was young, tender, well cooked, juicy and clean.
No noise accompanied the cautious movement, but the others noticed that the boat felt the impulse at once. Lena-Wingo was using it for its legitimate purpose, and was gradually, but none the less certainly, working in toward the land. It seemed to the others that such a proceeding was dangerous in the highest degree, for the boat, on account of its size, was likely to attract attention.
The instant these cries fell on the ears of the Mohawk, his dark face lit up with a gleam of satisfaction, the expression of delight being noticed by all. "What is it, Lena-Wingo?" asked Rosa. "Are they Iroquois and white folks that are fighting?" "No, not that." "What then?" "Iroquois fighting Iroquois." So his wish was granted, after all.
"Well, Lena-Wingo," said Jo, when the ripple of fun had died out, "you seem to have made up your mind on the subject, and I suppose there is no use of arguing with you." "No use," was the response of the Indian. "If that's the case," added Ned, "we may as well dismiss it, and find out what is to be done."
"It strikes me that is what they've been doing for the past few days," added Jo, who was not to be discouraged. "But they haven't made a success of it, so far." "It seems to me," said Ned, addressing Jo, but meaning his words for Lena-Wingo, "that when the approaches to Wilkesbarre are guarded so closely it will be wiser for us to go somewhere else."
"No!" gasped Ned, in return. "That he Lena-Wingo look good while for him found him shoot him won't kill any more women and babies." And who was Dick Evans, that the mention of his name should cause so much emotion on the part of those who heard it pronounced? He was one of the most infamous wretches produced by the Revolutionary war.
"Me and Red Jack though I believe he likes his name of Lena-Wingo the best have been on many a hunt together, and he beats anything I ever saw." "There is no cause for his being otherwise, when he has spent so many years as a hunter and scout. The Iroquois would give a great deal to secure his scalp." "You can just bet they would, and so would Colonel Butler, Captain Bagley or any of the Tories.
"Lena-Wingo didn't hunt eat he hunt something more." "Well, did he find it?" asked Rosa, who was more daring in her questions than the others thought it prudent to be. "Yes he find him." "Why don't you bring him here, then, that we may see him?" "He gone," was the direct but rather unsatisfactory answer, for there was no telling to what he referred.
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