He had gone with his brother to the Blue Licks, to him a spot always fruitful of evil; and being ambushed by the Indians, his brother was killed, and he himself was only saved by his woodcraft and speed of foot.

The Indians had with them a tracking dog, by the aid of which they followed his trail for three miles; until he halted, shot the dog, and thus escaped.

[Footnote: Boon's Narrative.] Life of the Settlers.
During this comparatively peaceful fall the settlers fared well; though the men were ever on the watch for Indian war parties, while the mothers, if their children were naughty, frightened them into quiet with the threat that the Shawnees would catch them.

The widows and the fatherless were cared for by the other families of the different stations.

The season of want and scarcity had passed for ever; from thenceforth on there was abundance in Kentucky.