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As fast as a line of these were made the loose snow was thrown in behind it and trampled down hard. Except for meals there was no rest. The chief said that as there was little chance of the 'Rappahoes coming up so soon, Hunting Dog had better stay behind and help, and he lent his aid in carrying the blocks of snow on a rough stretcher they made for the purpose.
Two more of the 'Rappahoes fell, and the whole band in obedience to a shout from one of their chiefs galloped at full speed down the valley. The three men sprang to their feet, waving their hats, while the party on the ledge also leapt up with a shout. "It's you, chief, I see!" one of those on the rocks shouted.
Several times they had to dismount in order to get the horses over heavy falls, and it was four hours from the time they entered the canon before they approached its mouth. When they entered the little wood where they had first left the horses, the chief said, "Make fire, cook food here. Leaping Horse and Hunting Dog go on and scout, maybe 'Rappahoes left watch in valley." "Very well, chief.
"Perhaps attacked yesterday. Perhaps have got strong place, 'Rappahoes want more help to take it. White rifle shoot straight, perhaps want more men to starve them out." They again went forward, at a gallop now. Jerry did not think much of the chief's idea.
"Leaping Horse will go along the ledge," the chief said a few minutes later, after a short conversation with Hunting Dog. "The 'Rappahoes will try to find out who are here; not like to attack the rock till find out." The two Indians lay down flat on the ledge, and crawled along without raising themselves in the slightest until they reached a point where the cliffs projected somewhat.
It was one day in the middle of February, that Hunting Dog, who was standing at the peep-hole, exclaimed: "'Rappahoes!" Tom sprang up from the side of the fire, and running to the entrance pulled aside the curtain and looked out. Six Indians on snow-shoes were coming up the valley. He ran out on to the platform and fired his ride.
I told you so, chief, when I talked to you about it; and instead of that, here they are up in the country of the 'Rappahoes and Shoshones." "They went south," the Indian said quietly, "and had trouble with the Utes and had to come back again, then they went north." "Ah, that accounts for it. I wonder Harry didn't send word to Pete Hoskings that he had gone up to the Big Wind River.
I should never have proposed the other if I had had an idea that we were within sixty or seventy miles of the Green River. And you think we had better take the canon you came up by, chief?" The Indian nodded. "If go down through forest may be ambushed. Open ground from here back to canon. 'Rappahoes most in front. Think we go that way, not think we go back. Get good start.
Presently they saw the chief raise his head behind a rock within a hundred yards of that behind which the 'Rappahoes were sheltering. "He see them now," Hunting Dog said. "See, he going to fire." There was a puff of smoke and a sharp report, and almost simultaneously rose an Indian yell, and the war-cry of the Seneca.
"You must have a talk with him one of these days over his adventures among the 'Rappahoes and Navahoes, who are both as troublesome rascals as are to be found on the plains. An Indian seldom talks of his adventures, but sometimes when you can get him in the right humour you may hear about them." "He talks very fair English," Tom said. "Yes; he has been ten years among us.
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