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Updated: June 27, 2025
Having now made it plain that the feelings of both captives had been touched by the kindness of their captors, we will transport them and the reader at once to the neighbourhood of Bounding Bull's camp. Under the same tree on the outskirts which had been the scene of the girls' capture, Rushing River and Eaglenose stood once more with their companions, conversing in whispers.
Himself, therefore, carried the former weapon, Eaglenose the latter, and both were fully armed with hatchet, tomahawk, and scalping-knife. The path if such it may be called which they followed was one which had been naturally formed by wild animals and wandering Indians taking the direction that was least encumbered with obstructions.
After a short ride over the level ground the Blackfeet came to a fringe of woodland, on the other side of which they were told by the scouts a herd of buffalo had been seen browsing on a vast sweep of open plain. Riding cautiously through the wood, they came to the edge of it and dismounted, while Rushing River and Eaglenose advanced alone and on foot to reconnoitre.
They called him, I think, Eaglenose." "Is Skipping Rabbit the child's name?" "Then Skipping Rabbit will skip more than ever, for Eaglenose is a funny man when not on the war-path, and his mother is a good woman. She does not talk behind your back like other women. You have nothing to fear for Skipping Rabbit. Come with me, we will visit the mother of Eaglenose."
It was an awful crash, and after it the poor youth lay prone for a few minutes with his injured member in the dust literally, for he had ploughed completely through the superincumbent turf. Fortunately for poor Eaglenose, Rushing River carried a gun, with which he shot the bull through the heart and galloped on. So did the other Indians.
Without removing their hands for an instant from their mouths, the Indians gathered the girls in their left arms as if they had been a couple of sacks or bundles, and carried them swiftly into the forest, the chief leading, and Eaglenose stepping carefully in his footsteps.
At least the speech of Rushing River led Eaglenose to think so, but our chief does not say all that is in his mind. He is not a squaw at least, not a skipping one." Instead of retorting, the child looked with sudden anxiety into the countenance of her companion.
A bear-leader, such as I had before now seen at the town-fair, had made his way to the Lodge, and the swarthy master, with his two companions, as it might be his brothers, were like all the men of their tribe. A thick growth of hair covered the mouth below an eaglenose, and on their shaggy heads they wore soft red bonnets.
"Does Eaglenose desire to hunt with his fathers in the happy hunting-grounds?" muttered Rushing River. "Eaglenose knows not fear," returned the youth boastfully. As he spoke he bent his bow, and discharged an arrow. He lacked the precision of Robin Hood. The shaft only grazed the bull's shoulder, but that was enough.
The party consisted of Rushing River and his mother, Moonlight, Skipping Rabbit, and Eaglenose. The latter, although still afflicted with a nose the swelled condition of which rendered it out of all proportion to his face, and interfered somewhat with his vision, was sufficiently recovered to travel, and also to indulge his bantering talk with the "skipping one," as he called his little friend.
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