Why do you ask ?" said the Colonel, in a low tone.

"Look here, Lew, is that not a genuine call ?" "Goodbye, Harry, be sure and bring me a turkey," called Betty, as she disappeared.
"I calkilate it's a real turkey," answered the hunter, and motioning the lad to stay behind, he shouldered his rifle and passed swiftly down the path.
Of all the Wetzel family--a family noted from one end of the frontier to the other--Lewis was as the most famous.
The early history of West Virginia and Ohio is replete with the daring deeds of this wilderness roamer, this lone hunter and insatiable Nemesis, justly called the greatest Indian slayer known to men.
When Lewis was about twenty years old, and his brothers John and Martin little older, they left their Virginia home for a protracted hunt.

On their return they found the smoking ruins of the home, the mangled remains of father and mother, the naked and violated bodies of their sisters, and the scalped and bleeding corpse of a baby brother.
Lewis Wetzel swore sleepless and eternal vengeance on the whole Indian race.

Terribly did he carry out that resolution.

From that time forward he lived most of the time in the woods, and an Indian who crossed his trail was a doomed man.