Mangled Hands: A Story of the New York Martyrs

192 pp. If the individual life of each saint were written in the style and with the naturalness and vigor of this narrative, it would indeed prove to be a "best seller" among our American boys and girls. So thrilling- are the exploits vividly related, and so enormous is the fund of Indian habits and customs bound up in this story, that the reader will have difficulty in making himself realize that he is not one of the Huron tribe. What makes the tale still more gripping is the fact that it is related by the youngest of the Martyrs, Tarcisius (formerly Little Spoon) Tandihetsi. 12-year-old son of a Huron chieftain and proud of it. In his own quaint language, he conducts us on the fatal trip with his warriors and Missionaries. The band is ambushed, a battle with arrows and rifles ensues and al) are killed or captured. While enjoying a hair-raising Indian story, the reader will be unconsciously absorbing the actual details of the martyrdom of Blessed Isaac Jogues and companions, Jesuits, the first Martyrs of the United States. - jacket