“The enemy, sir. They are giving way everywhere!”
Wolfe roused up long enough to send a brief order to the next in command, telling him just how to go ahead and capture the fort. Then he lay down wearily, smiling as he closed his eyes. “Now God be praised, I shall die in peace,” he said.
The French hero of Quebec also was shot through the body in that last short fight. “How long have I to live?” he asked.
“Not more than twelve hours,” said the surgeon in charge.
“So much the better,” said the dying Montcalm. “I am happy that I shall not live to see the surrender of Quebec.”
DANIEL BOONE, THE GREAT INDIAN FIGHTER OF KENTUCKY
OF all the great American hunters, trappers, and Indian fighters, Daniel Boone was the leader. He was born in Pennsylvania, but while still a boy he moved with his parents to North Carolina. Besides learning to do farm work and help his father at the loom and the forge, the