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of the settlement inform us that an individual was fined for the heinous offence of saying that ‘Major Phillips's mare was as lean as an Indian dog.’men their watch are keeping. Let him hie him away through the dank river fog, Never rustling the boughs nor displacing the rocks, For the eyes and the ears which are watching for Mogg Are keener than those of the wolf or the fox. He starts,—there's a rustle among the leaves: Another,—the click of his gun is heard! A footstep,—is it the step of Cleaves, With Indian blood on his English sword? Steals Harmon Captain Harman, of Georgeana, now of York, was for many years the terror of the Eastern Indians. In one of his expeditions up the Kennebec River, at the head of a party of rangers, he discovered twenty of the savages asleep by a large fire. Cautiously creeping towards them until he was certain of his aim, he ordered his men to single out their objects. The first discharge killed or mortally wounded the whole number of the unco