At length they came to the Indian village.
AN INDIAN STORY—II
The Indian houses were long huts covered with strips of birch bark.
Four or five families lived in each of these houses.
John was given to an Indian woman who had lost her own boy the year before.
John's Indian mother was good to him, and treated him as if he were her own son.
One time the Indian boys thought they would test John's courage, so they formed in two lines, while each boy held a stout stick.
Then they ordered John to run down between the two long lines.
They had their sticks all ready to beat him.
They thought John would be afraid and so would do as they told him.