THE SENSATION OF BEING SCALPED.
: Every reader of Feni'moro Cooper's novels has gloated with mixed feelings of,horror and interest over his account of the tortures inflicted 1 by the Red Indians upon their victims. But to get the, real doliglitful feeling of shuddering horror, it is nocessary to road tlie. description of the one who by .personal experience, can tell how it feels to 'be scalped. " Imagine," said recently an old frontier's man, who had undergone the experience, to the reporter of an American contemporary, "some one;wl)0 hates you with, the utmost grabbing a handful of your hair while you. aro lying prostrate and helpless, and giving it a sudden jerk-with force enough almost to: loosen the scalp jtljon, while this painful tension is not relaxed, imagine the not particularly Bha'rp blade of a knite being run qujetyy in; a circle around your scalp with a saw-like motion, Then let iyour imagination grasp, if it can, the .effect that a strong, quiok jerk on they tuft ot hair to release the jcalp from any clinging partioles that inay still hold it iii place would have on. your nervous and physical systems, ai}d you will have some idea how it feels to be scalped."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 14 April 1884, Page 2
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203THE SENSATION OF BEING SCALPED. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1659, 14 April 1884, Page 2
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