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rails, to protect it from the wolves. When her 

 task was complete, and when night closed around 

 her, the bold spirit which had hitherto borne her 

 up suddenly gave way. The recollection of the 

 horrors she had witnessed, the presence of the dead, 

 the darkness, the solitude, and the gloom of the 

 surrounding forest, wrought upon her till her 

 terror rose to ecstasy ; and she remained until 

 daybreak, crouched among the bushes, haunted 

 by the threatening apparition of an armed man, 

 who, to her heated imagination, seemed constantly 

 approaching to murder her.^ 



Some time after the butchery at Glendenning's 

 house, an outrage was perpetrated, unmatched, in 

 its fiend-like atrocity, through all the annals of the 

 war. In a solitary place, deep within the settled 

 limits of Pennsylvania, stood a small school-house, 

 one of those rude structures of logs which, to this 

 day, may be seen in some of the remote northern 

 districts of New England. A man chancing to 

 pass by was struck by the unwonted silence ; and, 

 pushing open the door, he looked in. In the 

 centre lay the master, scalped and lifeless, with a 

 Bible clasped in his hand ; while around the room 

 were strewn the bodies of his pupils, nine in num- 

 ber, miserably mangled, though one of them still 

 retained a spark of life. It was afterwards known 

 that the deed was committed by three or four war- 

 riors from a village near the Ohio ; and it is but just 



1 Doddridge, Notes, 221. MS. Narrative, written by Colonel Stuart 

 from the relation of Glendenning's wife. 



