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Updated: June 17, 2025
I'll pay you honestly for it, friend." "I should guess," said the settler, his stern features brightening for the first time into a smile of irony, "as how a man who had served a campaign agin the Ingins and another agin the British, might contrive to do without sich a luxury as bread. You'll find no bread here I reckon." "What, not even a bit of corn bread!
"You see, boys, if I'd a fired into that cow, the devils would a had me before I could a got a patch on my ball didn't have no breech-loaders in them days, and it took as much judgment to know how to load a rifle properly as it did to shoot it. "Them Ingins knowed all that they knowed I hadn't fired, so they kept a respectable distance.
We talked among ourselves a moment, then reckoned it was the best to go up to the fort together, and ask the woman how on earth she'd got shet of the Ingins what had took her off, and how it come she was cooking there. We started out and when we got into the kitchen, there was Paul and Mrs. Dale, and you never see no people so happy.
The dumb boy had in his grasp the very chief of the band, who had just then discovered the hole in the roof made by the three Ingins who had passed in their checks for their impudence, and was trying his best to push himself down.
We was certain there was a good many more of them behind the first that had charged us; so we got all the men on the side of the corral next to the Trail. The Ingins we know'd couldn't get behind us, on account of the river, and we was bound to make them fight where we wanted them to, if they meant to fight at all.
"The oxen kept up a bellowing and pawing around the corral, for they was desperate hungry and thirsty, hadn't had nothing since the night before; yet we couldn't help them any, as we didn't know whether we was shet of the Ingins or not.
"We four Americans warn't idle when them Ingins come a charging up; we kept our eye skinned, and whenever we could draw a bead, one of them tumbled off his pony, you bet! When they'd come back for their dead we'd already killed three of them we had a big advantage, wasted no shots, and dropped four of them; one apiece, and you never heard Ingins howl so.
Then she was hired to cook, meaning to work until she'd earned enough to take her back to Pennsylvany, to her mother's, where she had started for when the Ingins attackted the train. "That night, after listening to her mirac'lous escape, we made up a 'pot' for her, collecting 'bout eight hundred dollars. The master of Colonel St.
If an ingin comes up an screwges its suction on to the plug, all the other ingins as comes after it has to stan' by an' do nuffin. But by puttin' the cistern over the plug an' lettin' it fill, another ingin or mabbe two more, can ram in its suction and drink away till it's fit to burst, d'ye see."
The men were awfully hungry, too, but not a mouthful did they get of their own game. "The Ingins were more'n an hour feasting, while their prisoners kept a looking for some help to get 'em out of the scrape they was in. "'Bout a mile down the creek, me and six other trappers had a camp, and that morning, being scarce of meat, we all went a hunting.
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