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ishment and horror, she saw, rushing in 

 through the door that was left open, paint- 

 ed savages, with presented arms, raising a 

 hideous shriek. Mr. Scott, being awake, 

 instantly jumped out of his bed, but was 

 immediately fired at : he forced his way 

 through the middle of the enemy and got 

 out of the door, but fell a few paces from 

 thence. An Indian seized Mrs. Scott, and 

 ordered her to a particular spot, and not to 

 move ; others stabbed and cut the throats of 

 the three youngest children in their bed, and 

 afterwards lifted them up and dashed them 

 down on the floor, near the mother ; the 

 eldest, a beautiful girl of eight years old, 

 awoke and escaped out of the bed, and ran 

 to her parent, and, with the most plaintive 

 accents, cried, ' Oh, mamma! mamma! save 

 me!' -The mother, in the deepest anguish of 

 spirit, and with a flood of tears, entreated the 

 savages to spare her child; but, with a brutal 

 fierceness, they tomahawked and stabbed her 

 in the mother's arms . Adj acent to Mr. Scott's 

 dwelling-house another family lived, of the 



