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Church's introduction of a New England scene of tomahawking Indians cannot be said to throw a flood of light upon the meaning of "Blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness' sake." Mr. St. John Harper's pictures are a trifle obscure; but their obscurity veils their want of pertinence and suggests subtilties that flatter the imagination into fitting the application to suit itself.
At length they sprang up, and then ensued another dispute among them about the manner in which the prisoners should be disposed of. The old savage was yet in favour of tomahawking the captives and retreating without delay. But the others would not consent to it. They were not satisfied with the small amount of suffering yet endured by the prisoners.
But soon among the whites there were no wounded, for the hovering host, having closed in from all sides, leaped from their horses, swarmed over the barrier between, tomahawking the last that showed signs of life, or thrusting them with their long lances, and pinning them to the sand.
Then George flies out at him. What's the meaning, then, of these silly jeers at ship-owning for the last three weeks? Had enough of them, anyhow. "Angry at having his mouth made to water, see. Cloete don't get excited. . . I am no squeamish ass, either, says he, very slowly. 'Tisn't selling your old Sagamore wants. Tomahawking, says he.
In my excitement over the picture of a red man tomahawking a child I turned a page so swiftly that I put a long tear in it. My pleasure was gone. I carefully joined the torn edges and closed the book and put it on the table and ran and hid behind the barn. By and by I saw Uncle Peabody coming down the lane with the cows, an ax on his shoulder.
Like him though he had a leather belt, with a sheath and knife on one side; and, instead of a pistol, a small tomahawk on the other. Not that Lucien had set out with the intention of tomahawking anybody. No; he carried his little hatchet for cracking rocks, not skulls. Lucien's was a geological tomahawk. Francois was still in roundabout jacket with trousers.
"There!" he exclaimed; "I had a suspicion when he came under the tree that I had seen him somewhere." "So had I, but I couldn't recall where and when it was." "Don't you remember when the battle was going on the other day, we saw one man among the Tories who was tomahawking the whites as savagely as any of them?" "Yes, I remember him well, but he didn't look like this fellow!"
The father was shot, and one Indian was in the act of tomahawking the six-year-old son, when an elder brother, from the doorway of the cabin, shot the savage. The Indians then fled.
You didn't suppose it was the superintendent of a Sunday-school, did you?" "No. An Indian, was it?" "The same." "Name of the Indian?" "His name? I don't know his name." "Must have his name. Who saw the tomahawking done?" "I don't know." "You were not present yourself, then?" "Which you can see by my hair. I was absent. "Then how do you know that Mackenzie is dead?"
"Fool!" exclaimed Magadar, scarce able to refrain from tomahawking the brave in his wrath "launch the canoes and give chase." The order was obeyed at once, and the flotilla dashed out into the stream. But Raventik was not to be caught so easily as they had expected. He had turned on hearing the report, and swept out into the middle of the river, so as to get the full benefit of the current.
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