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His buckskin suit showed the effect of hard riding through the thickets. "Hullo, Bill, any sign of Jim?" was Girty's greeting to his lieutenant. "Nary. He's not been seen near the Delaware camp. He's after that chap who married Winds." "I thought so. Jim's roundin' up a tenderfoot who will be a bad man to handle if he has half a chance. I saw as much the day he took his horse away from Silver.
High above Zane's cry, Deering's shouts and curses, Girty's shrieks of fear and fury, above the noise of wrestling bodies and dull blows, rose a deep booming roar. It was Wetzel's awful cry of vengeance. "Shake him loose," yelled Jonathan. Baffled, he ran wildly around the wrestlers. Time and time again his gory tomahawk was raised only to be lowered. He found no opportunity to strike.
News of Cornwallis's surrender Its effects Captain Estill's defeat Grand army of Indians raised for the conquest of Kentucky Simon Girty's speech Attack on Hoy's Station Investment of Bryant's Station Expedient of the besieged to obtain water Grand attack on the fort Repulse Regular siege commenced Messengers sent to Lexington Reinforcements obtained Arrival near the fort Ambushed and attacked They enter the fort Narrow escape of Girty He proposes a capitulation Parley Reynolds's answer to Girty The siege raised Retreat of the Indians.
Claims to be a relation of old Simon Girty's, nephew er something like that." "Does he claim to have known any of my family down there?" inquired Kenneth, apprehensively. "From what Moll says he must have knowed your pa. Leastwise, he says the name's familiar. He was sayin' only a day or two ago that he'd like to see a picter of your pa.
It was just after Girty's siege, and all the cabins had been burned. Brandt seemed honest, and was a good fellow. Besides, he had gold. He started the river barges, which came from Fort Pitt. He has surely done the settlement good service, and has prospered. I never talked a dozen times to him, and even then, not for long. He appears to like the young people, which is only natural.
"What has he in particular against you?" asked Colonel Zane. "Of course, Wetzel is the enemy of all Indians." "Several years ago Wetzel and I were on a hunt down the river at the place called Girty's Point, where we fell in with the tracks of five Shawnees. I was for coming home, but Wetzel would not hear of it. We trailed the Indians and, coming up on them after dark, we tomahawked them.
Little Turtle waited for him to come on, and plagued his march with parties of scouts who in the swamps and thickets cut off his foraging squads. The general had tough going, for two weeks. When on October 17 he arrived at Girty's Town, he found it abandoned and burning, to deprive him of more supplies. Then General Harmar made his first mistake.
Girty's associate was not much hurt; but he himself was so badly wounded on the forehead or temple that the blood streamed down his cheek and side to the floor.
The rifle and horns he had taken from Girty's hut, together with Silvertip's knife, lay beside him. As Joe lay there hoping for Whispering Winds' return, his reflections were not pleasant. Fortunate, indeed, he was to be alive; but he had no hope he could continue to be favored by fortune. Odds were now against his escape. Girty would have the Delawares on his trail like a pack of hungry wolves.
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