FAMILY HISTORY: POETRY Collection written by Elsie Strawn ARMSTRONG
  
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          CHAPTER EIGHT
  
  I want you to remember
      How cruel and unkind
  Our British neighbors were,
      And bear it in your mind.
  
  The Indians got eight dollars
      For every scalp they took,
  No matter whose it was,
      Wife, husband, child or cook.
  
  Oh! Infatuated mortals!
      Pride and vanity the bane,
  And avarice and ambition,
      On these they seemed insane.
  
  And through all coming time
      The story will be told,
  That Indians to the British
      Their brother's scalps have sold.
  
  At first they paid eight dollars,
      And then they fell to five,
  And thus the British bribed them
      To take away our lives.