"Is that so ?" "I know not," answered Humphrey; "I think I have heard my father say something of that sort.

But surely they will fight to avenge such things as that!" and he made a gesture with his hand as though indicating the burnt homestead and the graves of the murdered woman and children.
"If they be men they surely will.

You will go and tell them your story, Humphrey ?" "Ay, that I will!" answered Humphrey, between his shut teeth.
Fritz sat staring into the fire for some time, and then he too broke out with some heat.
"Yes, it is the same story all over.

It was the French who came and spoiled our happy home.

If they had let us alone, perchance we might have been there still, hunting, fishing, following the same kind of life as our fathers--at peace with ourselves and with the world.