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Joe had often heard of the extreme cruelties of the Indians, and now he was brought face to face with what might be expected of such a black-hearted warrior as Long Knife.
It was not enough that this rascal contemplated burning the young pioneer at the stake, -- the most cruel death devised by the savages, -- but he also calculated to inflict equal if not deeper pain on the youth's mother by making the woman witness the torture of her offspring.