@LostCityMagic@mastodon.social
2026-08-06 03:28 UTC
returned in the evening, decided that it was of no use to follow them. When the war party reached their own country they gave the boys to an old man, whose sons had been killed by the Seneca. He took the boys and adopted them for his own, and they grew up with him until they were large and strong enough to go hunting for themselves. But all the time they remembered their own home, and one day the older one said to his brother, "Let's kill the old man and run away." "No," said the other,
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@LostCityMagic@mastodon.social 2026-08-06 03:28
"we might get lost if we run away, we are so far from home." "I remember the way," said his brother, so they made a plan to escape. A few days later the old man took the boys with him and the three set out together for a hunt in the mountains. When they were well away from the settlement the boys killed the old man, took all the meat and parched corn meal they could easily carry, and started to make their way back to the north, keeping away from the main trail and following the ridge of the