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Updated: May 24, 2025
A big price would have to be paid, no doubt; but Peewash was prepared to bid high, and the owner could not withstand a temptation, backed, as it was, by that bait irresistible to a Red Indian, "firewater." The boy again changed hands, and now for some time served his original captor. About this period the Tribes again "dug up the hatchet," and set out on a big war-trail.
He became, too, almost reconciled to his dress, or want of dress though, to be sure, a coat of paint and a blanket cannot, at the best, be regarded as more than a passably efficient hot-weather costume. With the easy adaptability of boyhood, Andrew Kerr had become almost a veritable Indian. Now, Peewash all this time had looked with covetous eye on his former slave, and desired to repossess him.
Moved to pity by the boy's unhappy condition, this man, with some difficulty, persuaded Peewash to sell the lad to him for goods to the value of £40. Great was Kerr's exultation; once more he was free, free too without having had to face the terrible ordeal of attempting to escape from these murderous Indian devils.
After undergoing the preliminaries of an Indian toilet, young Kerr had moccasins given to him, and a blanket to wear a costume perhaps more convenient than becoming and he entered on a round of duties new and strange. He was not, after a time, unkindly treated by Peewash and his squaw.
His youth saved him. Kerr's captor, a warrior named Peewash, of the tribe of the Chippeways, dragged his prisoner home to his wigwam.
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