“Did your uncle shoot the one who threw the tomahawk?”
“I don’t know; I hope so; but they didn’t get his scalp.”
“What is that?”
“Why, don’t you know what a scalp is?”
“No; what is it?”
“When the Indians killed any white folks, they cut a piece of skin off the top of their heads, with the hair on, and carried it off.”
“What made ’em do that?”
“I don’t know; because they were Indians, I suppose.”
“Does Uncle Isaac know?”
“To be sure he does.”