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I've got to push on and git that powder. Curse the luck!" "The Greenwoods have no powder to spare. He has less than half a pound." "Black devils in a pipe! Howard's Creek will have to go to making bows and arrers!" "I've brought twenty pounds of powder and ten of lead from Salem," I added. "Howard's Creek is welcome to it after I've outfitted myself." "Hooray! That ends that cussed trip.
New times has come on the Green." "Can you travel, Jackson?" asked Hall of Ohio. "You've had a hard time." "Who? Me? Why shouldn't I? Give me time to pick up some o' them bows an' arrers an' I'm ready to start. I noticed a right fine horn bow one o' them devils had the Crows allus had good bows. That's the yaller-an'-red brave that was itchin' so long to slap a arrer through my ribs from behind.
"Ef we do we shall get there some time ter-night, but ef we stay here we shan't, that's sartin." "Do you suppose they'll follow us?" inquired I. "Sartin sure," responded Jerry; "but I reckon by good engineerin' we kin keep 'em off, so that their arrers won't hurt us much: it's a mighty lucky thing they ain't got no firearms." We immediately mounted our horses and rode out upon the plain.
Do I see any more of your money of the ream and dominion of Uncle Sam, with the eagle a spreadin' his legs, with his toes full of arrers, and his mouth wide open a hollerin' de-fiance and destruction ag'in' his innimies on land and sea, wheresomever they may be, as the feller said? "Do I see any more of your money, gents? Do I git sight of any more?
The Injuns robbed 'em of everything they had an' kept 'em prisoners. "But ole Dan'l wuz a slick un. He'd been studyin' Injuns all his life an' he knowed 'em frum a ter izard. They didn't have nothin' but bows an' arrers then an' he had a rifle thes like mine. He never got flustered or riled by the way they wuz treatin' him, but let on like he wuz happy ez er June bug.
"Them's burnin' arrers," said the Panther. "It's an old trick of the Injuns. If they had time enough they'd be sure to set the cabin on fire, and then from ambush they'd shoot the people as they ran out. But what we're here for is to stop that little game of theirs. The flight of the arrers enables us to locate the spot from which they come an' there we'll find the Comanches."
"There's a few places in the Kennebec where the water's too shaller to let the logs float, so we used to build a flume, an' the logs would whiz down like arrers shot from a bow.
"Just bein' neighborly," he growled as he rapidly loaded. "Shot them two arrers off the next roof." Suddenly the savage howling ceased; nor were there any more fire-arrows. Then the Englishman began shouting. He was once more calling us. I answered and wriggled the knife-blade between the logs. Sure of my attention he loudly informed us: "Dale passes the word for us to stop fighting.
"There's a few places in the Kennebec where the water's too shaller to let the logs float, so we used to build a flume, an' the logs would whiz down like arrers shot from a bow.
"There," said he, "you won't break that." The finishing touch was thinly coating the bows with some varnish found among the paint supplies. "Makes my old bow look purty sick," remarked Sam, as he held up the really fine new weapon in contrast with the wretched little hoop that had embodied his early ideas. "Now what do you know about arrers, mister?" as he tried his old arrow in the new bow.
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