America were once more engaged in fighting against each other.

8. The Indians in Canada assisted the French, and often came down with them upon the English, as they had done during King William's war. Several towns were burned, and much alarm and distress were caused.

9. The colonies which suffered the most, during this war, were those of Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

10. This war ended in 1713. It had lasted eleven years; but, like most other wars, little good was done by it.

Questions.

1. When did the Pequod war end? What is said of the state of the English people after this? Did peace last long? What was the war called which now succeeded? In what year did it begin?

2. Who was William? Who was Louis XIV.? Against whom did Louis declare war?

3. What people in America were subjects of King William? What people were subjects of King Louis?

4. After war was declared, what order did Louis send to his people in Canada?

5. How long did this war last? Who fought with the French? When did they come down from Canada? What did they do?

6. What place did they attack in February? What direction is Schenectady from Albany? How many miles? Was it a clear or a stormy

night? Were the inhabitants asleep or awake? What became of the place? How many of the people were killed? What befel many others?

7. When did the war end? When did Queen Anne ascend the throne of England? In what year was war declared between France and England? What was this war called? What people in America were now engaged against each other?

8. Who assisted the French in this war? In what manner did the French and Indians treat the English?

9. Which colonies suffered the most?

10. When did the war end? How long had it lasted? What good had it brought to pass?

Story.

1. One day, in the winter of 1697, the Indian war-whoop fell on the startled ears of Hannah Dustin and her family, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. She, with a young babe, was too ill to attempt to fly.

2. Mr. Dustin, at work in the field, had seen the Indians crossing the farm towards his dwelling. He mounted his horse, and, on reaching the house, took his little children and put them in the road, and told them to run, and he would soon follow.

3. By this time the Indians had arrived. He was obliged to leave Mrs. Dustin and the babe, and remounting his horse he fled. He soon came up with his little children, though they ran as fast as they were able. He looked back, and some of the Indians were coming — what should he do?

4. For a moment, he thought that he would take up the little boy or girl that he loved best, and flee. But which should

he choose? He loved them all, and he could not choose. He told them to run fast, and he would try to check the Indians.

5. He stopped his horse, and the children fled. He loaded his gun. The Indians soon came up; he fired, and again he fled. The Indians fired, but the balls touched him not, and touched not the children. God preserved them.

6. Again Mr. Dustin halted, and again loaded his gun; and when the Indians came up he fired, and they fired also. But the same kind Providence protected him, and at length he and all his little children safely reached a house, and the Indians went back.

7. The savages killed the baby, and carried Mrs. Dustin into captivity. They took also a boy and a nurse. The party were obliged to march many days through the forests, and at length reached a little island in the Merrimac River.

8. Hannah Dustin determined to escape. The boy whom the Indians had taken captive was named Samuel Leonardson, and came from Worcester. He now aided Mrs. Dustin in her plans. He had learned from the Indians how to scalp, and at night, when the Indian family who guarded them were asleep, Mrs. Dustin, the nurse, and the boy each took a tomahawk, and killing ten of the twelve Indians, made their escape to the nearest English settlement.

9. In February of 1704, during Queen Anne's war, a party of two hundred French and one hundred and fortytwo Indians attacked the town of Deerfield, in Massachusetts. "With the aid of snow-shoes, they had walked on the crust all the way from Canada." On reaching the neighbor

hood, they concealed themselves in a pine forest until after midnight, when they roused, with their fearful war-whoop, the slumbering villagers. A dreadful scene ensued; the village was burned, forty-seven were killed, and one hundred and twelve carried into captivity.

10. Among those doomed to this "winter's march through the wilderness," was Eunice Williams, the wife of the minister of Deerfield. Even amid the horrors of that night she had remembered her Bible, and secured it from the flames. It was now her greatest comfort. Her husband spoke with her of "the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens," for they knew, she being too weak for the painful march, that an Indian tomahawk would soon separate them in this world.

11. The cruel savages put her to death, and carried her six children with them to Montreal. Among them was a little daughter, then seven years of age. Refusing all entreaties for her ransom, the Indians brought her up as one of their tribe. She became the wife of an Indian chief, and many years afterwards visited her friends in Deerfield. She wore the Indian dress and loved the Indian life; and, notwithstanding all the prayers of her Deerfield friends, “she returned to the fires of her own wigwam, and to the love of her own Mohawk children."

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12. Mr. Williams was kept a prisoner for two years. the end of this time he was permitted to return to Deerfield, with fifty-seven of his people. After this he preached for twelve years. He wrote an interesting account of his captivity in a book called "The Redeemed Captive.'

date we shall pass rapidly on to the year 1756. In this latter the "French and Indian War" began.

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2. Between these two dates was a period of over forty years; and, during this time, the English colonies in America flourished. The inhabitants increased; agriculture was improved; commerce was extended; but manufactures did not flourish. The people in England were unwilling that the colonists should make cloth or hats, or hardly anything else.