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I warrant me, that Pawnee has a troop of his people in some of the hollows, nigh by; and as he has gone scampering after them, you are about to see a glorious chase. It will serve to keep the squatter and his brood under cover, and for ourselves there is little reason to fear. A Pawnee is not apt to be a malicious savage." Every eye was now drawn to the striking spectacle that succeeded.
"How well the Pawnee knew the philosophy of a buffaloe hunt!" said the old man, after he had stood regarding the animated scene for a few moments, with evident satisfaction. "You saw how he went off like the wind before the drove. It was in order that he might not taint the air, and that he might turn the flank, and join Ha! how is this! yonder Red-skins are no Pawnees!
But disappointment was not the worst of it. Hardly had the command to halt been issued than the captain of the troops advanced toward the scout. "Pawnee Brown!" he ejaculated, in surprise, and a smile of satisfaction crossed his face. "This is a great pleasure." "Is it?" answered the great scout, coldly. "It is indeed. Do you intend to throw up your hands?"
We were not too far off to sympathize with the scares at Richmond. There was the Pawnee affair, for instance. Early in the war all Richmond was stirred by the absurd report that the Pawnee was on its way up James River to lay the Confederate capital in ashes, just as all Athens was stirred, in the early part of the Peloponnesian war, by a naval demonstration against the Piræus.
"A good man as generous as he is brave," murmured Mortimer Arbuckle. "Would the world had more of such fellows." "Pawnee Brown and Jack Rasco are the best fellows in the world!" answered the youth. "But, come, let me carry you to yonder house, where you can get dry and also get something to eat." He assisted his parent to his feet, then lifted the man to his back and started off.
Although these tribes are known by many different names, such as "Shoshones," "Bonacks," "Utahs," "Lipans," "Apaches," "Navajoes," "Pawnee Picts," "Camanches," or "Cayguas," they vary but little in their general habits of life. Such differences as do exist are mainly the result of variations of climate.
At that time, the Pawnee Picts, themselves an offset of the Shoshones and Comanches, and speaking the same language a tribe residing upon the northern shores of the Red River, and who had always been at peace with their ancestors, had committed some depredations upon the northern territory of the Comanches.
A party from the fort, comprising only eight men, among whom was young Wooton, made up for lost time with the Indians, at the crossing of Pawnee Fork, the same place where he had had his first fight. The men had set out from the fort for the purpose of meeting a small caravan of wagons from the East, loaded with supplies for the Bents' trading post.
Suddenly Jack Rasco uttered a cry. "See, Pawnee, here's whar another of the hosses got away. Hang me if I don't think it war my hoss, too!" "Yes, and here is where the horse dropped into a walk," he answered. "I don't believe he can be far off." Without delay Rasco slid to the ground. "I'll follow him up afoot," he declared. "I'm fresh and can run it putty good.
It was not till night, when she sat idly brushing out her long curls, and looking at her Pawnee face in the mirror alas! the poor face now seemed browner and uglier than ever! that Agatha recollected this same letter. "It may give me something to think about, which will be well," sighed she; and carelessly pushing her hair behind her ears, she drew the candle nearer, and began leisurely to read.
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