RM.]

"As the settlement increased in number, and the people began felling
trees, the Indians, who from time to time passed there on their way to
Penacook, Contoocook, Hooksett, etc., seeing the whites encroaching
upon their lands, began their maraudings and became so troublesome, that
the settlers regarded it as no sin to kill a redskin who was known to
watch about for an opportunity to secretly send an arrow with deadly
intent at their white brothers whenever they ventured beyond the limits
of their little settlement.

[Illustration: BIRTH-PLACE OF DANIEL WEBSTER.]

"There was one, Mr. Baker, whose delight was, we learned of the
Indians,--being at their camping-ground, near the union of what is now
Baker's River with the Pemigewasset River, about a mile above
Plymouth,--to take his gun, as he termed it, and play hide-and-seek with
the redskins. His scouting about would seem to be known, and an Indian
would come out to spy his enemy, hiding from tree to tree. Baker did the
same, and as each peeped for the other Baker placed his hat on the
muzzle of his gun, and held it so that the Indian saw, as he thought, a
white man's head. Then he sent an arrow whizzing through Baker's old
hat, and, seeing it fall, stepped out to finish his foe by raising the
hair, when Baker sent a slug through the redskin. Soon another Indian
came peeping from trees to learn the cause of that report and the fate
of his chief. In a few minutes Baker played the same game on him and
several others. Baker became so notorious an Indian exterminator that
they gave the river his name; hence Baker's River."

[TO BE CONTINUED.]

[Illustration: REV. THOMAS PRINCE.
[The Founder of the Prince Library in Boston.]]

THE NEW ENGLAND LIBRARY AND ITS FOUNDER.

BY VICTORIA REED.

Thomas Prince was an eminent divine and accomplished scholar, well known
throughout New England during the first half of the 18th century. His
life is worthy of consideration on many accounts, but particularly for
the great work he accomplished outside of his profession. He is,
perhaps, best known to this generation as the collector of the Prince
Library, now incorporated with many other private collections in the
Public Library of Boston, although his published work, "The Chronology
of New England," confers an equal benefit on posterity, and both
together entitle him to a place of honor in our annals.

His library was gathered as much for the instruction of others as f