The Captivity of Two Little Brothers.

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James, who was dragged off his horse by boys of about his own size, and severely kicked, cuffed and beaten, but finally succeeded in reaching his brother. There they remained several days, and then moved to White Woman's Creek, O., where James was adopted into a respectable Indian family.

We may mention two or three interesting incidents of this boy's captivity. He had a little Indian brother of about his own age and size, and a brother of his Indian father, badly crippled by a bear, used to set the two little ones to wrestle, which sometimes ended in a fight, when they would be parted. One time they both had knives, while husking corn, and when James had laid his knife down, his Indian brother slipped it away and put his own in its place. On making a dash for his own knife again he was severely cut, (the scar of which lasted during life,) for which his brother received a severe drubbing from the mother.

At another time their father brought in a deer, and after cutting off a steak, left his hunting knife on the ground. His little Indian brother had been amusing himself by getting splinters from the fire and burning James' naked hips. The white boy told him he would whip him if he did not desist, and on his continuing, James made at him, clinched and threw him, but, unfortunately, on the point of the knife, which entered above the little lad's hips, near the backbone, inflicting a severe wound. Seeing his Indian father reaching for his tomahawk, James ran down to the creek and hid under some rocks. It was in Winter, with much snow on the ground, and there the little fellow lay until night, when, feeling very cold, he crept out and saw his mother going for water. She made signs for him to come to her, and insisted on his going back to the camp, which he did, very much frightened, expecting he would be killed, or, at least, severely chastised. When he went in, however, no one had an angry word to say to him. He went up to where his little brother was lying in great pain, and being sincerely sorry for the accident, he was pardoned.

At another time he went to live with a sister who had married, who used him cruelly, striking him on the head with the back of a scalping knife so violently as to make it bleed profusely. Once, when she went to the creek to wash, she took hold of him and threw him into the creek, holding him under water until he would have been drowned, had not her husband just then returned from a hunt and witnessed the whole proceeding. His mother, coming that day to pay him a visit, noticed blood on his hair, and asked what did it. On being told she was exceedingly angry, and gave her daughter a terrible scolding, and took him home with her.