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What shall we do now? the big knife is coming on us and we shall all be killed. Now we must fight or we are done. Then let us kill all our women and children and go fight until we die? I shall go and make peace!

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As quoted in Best Little Stories from Virginia‎ (2003) by C. Brian Kelly, p. 74

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Let us kill all our women and children, and go fight till we die.

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