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Updated: July 24, 2025
He had voluntarily withdrawn from their chosen hunting-grounds, and they would be wise if they left him alone. He would not flee from them like a hunted deer, but would teach them severer lessons than they had ever yet learned. The death-yell of the stricken Shawanoe was certain to bring others to the spot, but Deerfoot cared nothing for that.
I will kill one of their dogs, for it won't do to let them fancy that nothing but noise comes out of our muskets. Ready present!" A rattling volley followed, and at the same moment one of the dogs fell with a death-yell on the ice, and dyed it with its blood. "Forward!" shouted the captain.
A loud outcry answered him from the forest. To my amazement Ellinipsico slowed down his mad pace and appeared to be reluctant to enter the woods. The few Shawnees and Mingos in the village followed his example in timidity. Then above the war-cry of the Ottawas rose the roar of Baby Kirst, punctuated by the crack of a rifle and the death-yell of a savage. Now I understood.
The death of the whites, and plundering and burning their property, was apparently their only object: But as yet we had not heard the death-yell, nor seen the smoke of a dwelling that had been lit by an Indian's hand. In the preceding autumn my father either moved to another part of his farm, or to another neighborhood, a short distance from our former abode.
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