The Miscellaneous Works of Colonel Humphreys
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This change of ground occasioned the tree* to which Putnam was tied to be di- rectly between the fire of the two parties. Human ima- gination can hardly figure to itfelf a more deplorable fi- tuation. The balls flew incefiantly from either fide, ma- ny ftruck the tree, while fome paiTed through the fleeves and Ikirts of his coat. In this ilate of jeopardy, unable to move his body, to ilir his limbs, or even to incline his head, he remained more than an hour. So equally bal- anced, and fo obflin...ate was the fight ! At one moment, while the battle fvverved in favor of the enemy, a young Savage, chofe an odd way of difcovering his humor.
He found Putnam bound. He might have difpatched hi at ablow. But heloved better to excite the terrors of the pri foner,by hurling a tomahawk at his head,or rather it fhoul feem his object was to fee how near he could throw it with- out touching him—the weapon ftruck in the tree a nurnbet of times at a hair's breath diitance from the mark. When the Indian had fmifhed his amufement, a French Bafi-Of- ficer (a much more inveterate favage by nature, though defcended from fo humane and poiifhed a nation) per- ceiving GENERAL PUTNAM.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This change of ground occasioned the tree* to which Putnam was tied to be di- rectly between the fire of the two parties. Human ima- gination can hardly figure to itfelf a more deplorable fi- tuation. The balls flew incefiantly from either fide, ma- ny ftruck the tree, while fome paiTed through the fleeves and Ikirts of his coat. In this ilate of jeopardy, unable to move his body, to ilir his limbs, or even to incline his head, he remained more than an hour. So equally bal- anced, and fo obflin...ate was the fight ! At one moment, while the battle fvverved in favor of the enemy, a young Savage, chofe an odd way of difcovering his humor.
He found Putnam bound. He might have difpatched hi at ablow. But heloved better to excite the terrors of the pri foner,by hurling a tomahawk at his head,or rather it fhoul feem his object was to fee how near he could throw it with- out touching him—the weapon ftruck in the tree a nurnbet of times at a hair's breath diitance from the mark. When the Indian had fmifhed his amufement, a French Bafi-Of- ficer (a much more inveterate favage by nature, though defcended from fo humane and poiifhed a nation) per- ceiving GENERAL PUTNAM.
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