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Oonomoo the Huron

CHAPTER IX
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The Shawnees inflicted some great injury upon him.

What it was I do not know.

I have heard that his father was a chief, and, while Oonomoo was still a boy, he was broken of his chiefdom, and both he and his wife inhumanly massacred.
This is the secret of his deadly hostility to that tribe, and, I am told, that among the _scores and scores_ of scalps which grace his lodge, there is not one which has not been torn from the head of a Shawnee.

But for a year or two, he has refrained from scalping his foes, and he has killed none except in honorable warfare." "Has he a wife and family ?" "He has a wife and son, and his lodge is deep in the forest, no one knows where.

Its location is so skillfully chosen that it has baffled all search for years.


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