Show how it feels to be scalped many years ago a party of five amer cans were attacked by indians and a man named thompson underwent the terrible experiment of being scalped an authentic account of this incident has just been published it was while running away from sav ages that a shot hit thompson in the right arm but he kept on binning finally he was felled with a blow from a tomahawk for a he lay stunned and then he recovered sufficiently to realize what the indian was doing he determined to remain perfectly quiet and to this dedsion del sion he probably owed his afe ufe the deftness of an expert Ife ompson said the savage grabbed ray scalp lock in one hand and cut arcoui d it again and again until the edges oi the skin were loosened then he tore it tree the sensation was about the same as if someone had passed a red hot iron over my head after the air touched the wound the pain was al moat unendurable I 1 never alt any thing that hurt so much it had to bite my tongue to keep from pitting my hand on the wound I 1 wanted to see how much of the top of my 1 ad was left |