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The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Big Brother, by George Cary Eggleston
Title: The Big Brother
A Story of Indian War
Author: George Cary Eggleston
Release Date: March 18, 2007 [eBook #20849]
Language: English
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THE DOG CHARGE.
THE
Big Brother
A STORY OF INDIAN WAR
BY
GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON
Author of "How to Educate Yourself," Etc.
Illustrated
NEW YORK
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-THIRD STREET
1875.
COPYRIGHT.
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS.
1875.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
Sinquefield
CHAPTER II.
The Storming of Sinquefield
CHAPTER III.
Sam's Lecture
CHAPTER IV.
Sam Finds It Necessary To Think
CHAPTER V.
Sam's Fortress
CHAPTER VI.
Surprised
CHAPTER VII.
Confused
CHAPTER VIII.
Weatherford
CHAPTER IX.
Weary Waiting
CHAPTER X.
Fighting Fire
CHAPTER XI.
In the Wilderness
CHAPTER XII.
An Alarm and a Welcome
CHAPTER XIII.
Joe's Plan
CHAPTER XIV.
The Canoe Fight
CHAPTER XV.
The Boys are driven out of the Root Fortress
CHAPTER XVI.
Where is Joe?
CHAPTER XVII.
A Famine
CHAPTER XVIII.
Which ends the Story
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Dog Charge
Sam's Party
"We's Dun Los'—Dat's wha' we is"
Judie on the Raft
The Perilous Leap
THE BIG BROTHER.
CHAPTER I.
SINQUEFIELD.
In the quiet days of peace and security in which we live it is difficult to imagine such a time of excitement as that at which our story opens, in the summer of 1813. From the beginning of that year, the Creek Indians in Alabama and Mississippi had shown a decided disposition to become hostile. In