"He Had Subsisted," Says An Old Journal, "On The Spontaneous Vegetables Of The Forest; And Cranberries Which He Had Eaten Came Out Of Wounds He Had Received In His Body." This Was Also The Case With Davis.

The last two reached home at length, safe if not sound, and lived many years in a crippled state to enjoy their pension.

But alas! of the crippled Indians, and their adventures in the woods, -

"For as we are informed, so thick and fast they fell, Scarce twenty of their number at night did get home well," -

how many balls lodged with them, how fared their cranberries, what Berwick or Saco they got into, and finally what pension or township was granted them, there is no journal to tell.

It is stated in the History of Dunstable, that just before his last march, Lovewell was warned to beware of the ambuscades of the enemy, but "he replied, `that he did not care for them,' and bending down a small elm beside which he was standing into a bow, declared `that he would treat the Indians in the same way.' This elm is still standing [in Nashua], a venerable and magnificent tree."

Meanwhile, having passed the Horseshoe Interval in Tyngsborough, where the river makes a sudden bend to the northwest, - for our reflections have anticipated our progress somewhat, - we were advancing farther into the country and into the day, which last proved almost as golden as the preceding, though the slight bustle and activity of the Monday seemed to penetrate even to this scenery.

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