contented five that worked on one of the turkeys - the other two
being saved for further needs.

"What's goin' to be the next thing in the line of our duty,
Henry?" asked Long Jim as they ate.

"We'll have plenty to do, from all that Sol tells us," replied
the boy. "It seems that they felt so sure of you, while you were
prisoners, that they often talked about their plans where you
could hear them. Sol has told me of two or three talks between
Timmendiquas and Thayendanegea, and from the last one he gathered
that they're intending a raid with a big army against a place
called Wyoming, in the valley of a river named the Susquehanna.
It's a big settlement, scattered all along the river, and they
expect to take a lot of scalps. They're going to be helped by
British from Canada and Tories. Boys, we're a long way from
home, but shall we go and tell them in Wyoming what's coming?"

"Of course," said the four together.

"Our bein' a long way from home don't make any difference " said
Shif'less Sol. "We're generally a long way from home, an' you
know we sent word back from Pittsburgh to Wareville that we wuz
stayin' a while here in the east on mighty important business."

"Then we go to the Wyoming Valley as straight and as fast as we
can," said Henry. "That's settled. What else did you bear about
their plans, Sol?"

"They're to break up the village here soon and then they'll march