THE FRONTIER ANGEL.



A bullet grazed her forehead, pressing a piece of
bone inward upon the brain, in such a manner as
to render her crazy!
  In a few moments, the savages came up and
proceeded to scalp their victims, when noticing that
she was still alive, she was taken as a prisoner to the
shore. It was subsequently ascertained that she was
demented and no harm was offered her. In time,
she dressed and painted like the Indians, but she
was never one of their number. She mingled with
them, but her singular manner impressed them with
the belief that she was something more than mortal.
After a year or so, she took to the woods, and some-
where in its recesses she built herself a home. In
the year I790, she appeared before a settlement,
and warned them of an intended attack, and from
this time up to the closing scenes of our story, she
devoted her life to the one object of befriending the
whites. In time she became known all along the
frontier, and the unaccountable mystery which hung
down over her, gave rise to the superstitious belief
that she was in reality an angel. Many attempts
were made to discover her history, but none suc-
ceeded, until her reason was restored and she gave
it herself.



 A crazy or idiotic person is always regarded with supersti-
tious reverence by the North American Indian.



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