392 INDIANS. 



the two whites got upon their feet. Shaking themselves 

 up, and getting the arrow out of Tom, they went to 

 examine their dead Indian, and, to their astonishment and 

 mortification, found it was a woman. The buck had 

 been finished almost without an effort. The squaw came 

 near finishing both her white enemies. Tom's brother 

 used to tell the story with great glee, adding that, though 

 the arrow went eight inches into Tom, it did not get 

 through the fat. 



