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114 Legends of the Shawangunk.
foregoing facts to his nephew Jacob Quick, of Callicoon, from whom the historian
Quinlan received them. It is said that Tom would relate the circumstances of the affair in
an exultant manner, as though he thought himself entitled to credit. The incident
illustrates the extremes of cruelty and barbarity
TOM QUICK KILLING A FAMILY OF FIVE INDIANS.
to which a person may be led by a constant brooding over wrongs, real or imaginary, and
by the still more reprehensible habit of harboring thoughts of revenge.
TOM QUICK AND THE BUCK WITH SEVEN SKINS.
DURING the months of summer, Tom Quick followed his favorite avocations, which
alternated between the business of hunting and that of killing Indians. Sometimes in
company with a boon companion, but more frequently alone and unattended, he ranged
the forests about the headwaters of the Delaware, now pursuing the bounding deer, and
again following with stealthy and cat-like tread the trail of the Indian hunter, whom he
sent without warning to the Indian’s paradise. His winters were usually spent at the
house of some congenial spirit in the vicinity of his hunting-grounds. He always paid
well for his entertainment, for he kept the family, with whom he was quartered, fully
supplied with venison and bear meat. While hunting late one autumn on a distant fork of
the Delaware, he awoke one morning to find the forest buried in deep snow, and the
rigors of winter at hand in all their severity. It was with difficulty that he made his way
to the house where he