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The girl soon came back, her eyes projecting like coffee saucers, and the little braided tags of her hair seemingly standing upright. "Oh, Miss Julia!" said she, "that ar’ tall, black man—no, I ax yer pardon, miss—that ar’ tall, yaller man, done shook hands ’long of Miss Fanny, who kissed him, and called him Uncle William. She said how he done been with the Injuns."
Raking the ashes until he found a red glowing coal, Pete deftly picked it up and by juggling it from one hand to the other, he conducted the live ember to his pipe-bowl, then he puffed away as calmly as if there was nothing in this world to trouble him. “If the gate be shut,” he resumed, “it will keep out prospectors, tramps and Injuns.” With that he went to smoking his red-willow bark again.
"That is just the trouble in my position here, Aunt Ri," he said. "I have no real power over my Indians, as I ought to have." "What makes yer call 'em yeour Injuns?" broke in Aunt Ri. The Agent colored. Aunt Ri was a privileged character, but her logical method of questioning was inconvenient. "I only mean that they are under my charge," he said. "I don't mean that they belong to me in any way."
"Gather everybody into the fort. We must repair it and be ready for a siege. When I left Chillicothe four days ago the Injuns had armed and painted for the war-path and they'll be on us any moment." That changed the scene. There was calling and running. Boone ate a few mouthfuls, while directing.
"'This whole business makes metired, though, says Dave, a heap disgustad. If these eediots had let them Injuns alone-, or even if they disdains the ponies when they was brought up, this yere could be fixed easy. But now it's fight or give up the woman, so you go down, as I says, an' arrange for the dance. "Of course thar's no explainin' nothin' to Injuns.
"There's two canoes out on the lake," Pearson said. "They're paddling quietly; which is which I can't say." As the light became brighter Pearson pronounced, positively, that there were three men in one canoe and four in the other. "I think they're all Injuns," he said. "They must have got another canoe somewhere along the lake. Waal, they've not caught the young uns yet."
"But, son, as you sees, I don't know nothin' speshul or much touchin' Injuns, an' if I'm to dodge the disgrace of ramblin' along in this desultory way, I might better shift to a tale I hears Sioux Sam relate to Doc Peets one time in the Red Light.
The led horse being light and wild, kept well up, and, in a marvellously short space of time, they were at Ten-mile Creek. "Hallo, Dick, wot's to do?" inquired Joe Blunt, who was up to his knees in the water, setting a trap at the moment his friend galloped up. "Injuns! Where's Henri?" demanded Dick. "At the head o' the dam there."
They crossed the Fork just above yere-like, and then they struck down to the head-waters of the Smoky Hill and so off to the westwards. Big game was plenty in those days, and now the Injuns off to the north of yere come down in just the same way hunting for game." The boys got down on their knees and scanned the trail with new interest.
"Hold on, youngster," he cried, "ye must larn to do as yer bid, lad; it's trouble enough to be among wild Injuns and wild buffaloes, as I hope soon to be, without havin' wild comrades to look after." Dick laughed and reined in his panting horse. "I'll be as obedient as Crusoe," he said, "and no one can beat him."
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