Words came fast as Cricket began to speak I do not understand the quarrel between the pale ones but this I know my people fight for their lands and mine my errors are short but they will find their Mark limit my time be right for now and this carefully research story of the War of 1812 the author has told from The Young Indians viewpoint, there is much of Indian lore and Legend but even more of courage and valor. Cricket was skilled in the crafts known to all young indians. He can make bows and arrows. He knew the sounds of birds and animals in the forest. He could run with the swiftness of the young deer but he wanted to be a warrior. He would make the long truck with his people from the banks of the Tippecanoe and the Wabash rivers in Indiana territory to the shores of Lake Huron and Beyond to Aid the British in a war which the Indians believed would restore to them their precious lands.