Pointing the rifle through the logs and aiming at a medal on the breast of the Indian, Mordecai fired.

The Indian fell, and springing to his feet the boy ran to the open arms of his mother at the cabin door.

Meanwhile Josiah, who had run to the fort for aid, returned with a party of settlers.

The bodies of Abraham Lincoln and the Indian who had been killed were brought in.

From this time forth Mordecai Lincoln was the mortal enemy of the Indian, and it is said that he sacrificed many in revenge for the murder of his father." In the presence of such dangers Thomas Lincoln spent his boyhood.