Show PP that 9 7 FEATHER or to show the white feather Is an espres slon meaning to betray timidity or tc back down or out a sign of yielding some years ago a bloody fight wai raging between the indians and th settlers dt the backwoods of our caun try A quaker who refused to flee saw one day a horde of indians rushing down toward hta house thinking tc pacify them he hurriedly set food be tore the savage lierde and when the bad eaten the chief fastened a feather over the door as a symbol 01 peace and friendship though many bands passed that house none avci violated the covenant by injuring am of its inmates or property anne S HIT br nw pipe |