Since then their aggressions have been unbearable.

Captain Jacobs has been making the lives of the settlers a terror to them.
We have sent for help from the colony, with what success you know.
We have sent to the Rangers under Rogers, and had hoped to be reinforced by them.
"But if he cannot help us, it is much to have stout-hearted friends come unexpectedly to our aid.

Have you seen fighting, friends?
or are you like the bulk of our men--inured to toil and hardship, full of zeal and courage, ready to wield any and every weapon in defence of property, or against the treacherous Indian ?" "Something like that," answered Stark; "but we can all claim to be good marksmen, and to have good weapons with us.

Our rifles carry far, and we seldom miss the quarry.

I will answer for us that we stand firm, and that we come not behind your soldiers in steadiness, nor in the use of arms at close quarters." "That I can well believe," answered the Colonel, with a smile; "I have but a score of men who have been trained in the school of arms.