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We know'd nothing that was white ever came by that part of the Trail without having a scrimmage with the red devils. "Well, we hadn't more than took our dinner, when them mules give a terrible snort, and tried to break and run, getting awful oneasy all to once. Them critters can tell when Ingins is around. They's better than a dozen dogs. I don't know how they can tell, but they just naturally do.
We told the Mexicans to yoke up, and as good luck would have it they found all the cattle close by, excepting them what pulled the wagon what the Ingins had cut out, and as it was way down the Trail, we had to abandon it; for it was too dark to hunt it up, as we had no time to fool away.
"While this circus was going on inside, three more of the Ingins got on the roof and wrenched off a couple of the logs that covered it; but in a minute they came tumbling down and lay dead on the floor. "'That leaves only twenty-five, don't it? inquired Al, as he mopped his face with his shirt-sleeve.
'Whew! this ain't going to be any boy's play; we've got to fight for all there is in it, and the chances are mightily agin us. "Rube he took an axe, and stood right under the hole in the roof, so that if any of the devils got in he could brain them. In a minute five rifles cracked; for the Ingins was pretty well armed for them times, and their bullets rattled agin the logs like hail agin a tent.
The old Ingins who, five and twenty year ago, fished and hunted over these regions, told of it as a thing to wonder at, and that it was handed along down from generation to generation, as one of the mysteries of this wilderness. I mind once I was out among the Adirondacks, trappin' martin and sable. I shantied for a week with Crop, under the shadow of Mount Marcy.
We had to be mighty wary, for if we snapped a twig even, it was all day with us and the prisoners too; so we dragged ourselves back, and after getting out of sound of the Ingins, we just got up and lit out mighty lively for the place we'd left our companions.
"'Howl, you red devils, said Bill, as the Ingins commenced their awful yelling when they saw their comrades fall into the room. 'Don't you know, you blame fools, you've fell in with experienced hands at the shooting business? "Spat! Something hit Al, and he was the first wounded, but it was only a scratch, and he kept right on attending to business. "'By gosh! look at Rube, will you? said Al.
But we was nigh enough then; and just as the Ingin was reaching down from his pony for the kid, Al Thorpe he was a powerful fine shot draw'd up his gun and took the red cuss off his critter without the paint-bedaubed devil know'n' what struck him. "The boy, seeing us, broke and run for where we was, and I reckon the rest of the Ingins seen us then for the first time, too.
'No, General; it ain't because I represent one of the largest Army Beef Contracts in this country, says I. 'It ain't because I belong, so to speak, to the "Sinews of War;" but because I'd want about ten thousand trained Ingins from the Reservations! And the regular West Point, high-toned, scientific inkybus that weighs so heavily on our army don't see it and won't have it!
But he was certain that something was there, and he gently aroused the boy beside him. 'What is it? queried the latter in a whisper, but fully wide-awake. 'I think thar ar Ingins among the trees. 'Good heavens! what shall we do?
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