“If the pitcher fall on the rock, the pitcher shall be broken; and if
the rock fall on the pitcher, the pitcher shall be broken.” So runs the
Eastern proverb, and it applies to the fate of the Indian throughout
the wars of the French and English. Every time an Indian tribe fought
with either side it was sharpening an arrow that would be directed
against itself.
[Illustration: Copyright, 1908, by E. K. Weller.