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Durn me! I'm still a wonderin' what Injuns they war; I'm a'most sartint thar the Tenawa Kimanch a band o' the Buffler-eaters an' the wust lot on all the parairia. Many's the fight we rangers used to hev wi' 'em, and many's the one o' 'em this child hev rubbed out.
Only after the lancer troop has passed, its rearmost files just clearing the alignment of the copse, he gasps out, in a voice husky as that of one in the act of being strangled, "They're going straight for the place. O God!" "Yes," rejoins the ex-Ranger, in a tone like despondent, "Thar boun' thar for sartint.
He knew a remedy he said in a "sartint weed," if he could only "lay his claws upon it." We noticed that from time to time as he rode along his eyes swept the ground in every direction. At length a joyous exclamation told that he had discovered the "weed."
So I tied the lariat round my ankles, sunk my head atween my knees, an' in the twinklin' o' a goat's tail I wur sound. I jest noticed as I wur goin' off, that the mustang wur out some yards, nibbling away at the dry grass o' the parairy. "I guess I must a slep about an hour, or tharabouts I won't be sartint how long. I only know that I didn't wake o' my own accord.
"Now," he says, taking up the foul carcase, and slinging it to his belt, "keep up your heart till this chile return to ye. I'm sure o' gettin' back by the mornin'; an' to make sartint 'bout the place, jest you squat unner the shadder o' yon big palmetto the which I can see far enuff off to find yur wharabouts 'thout any defeequelty."
"But whar did you get it, Josh Stebbins? Who gin it to you?" "You remember the man I brought over here last fall?" "Sartint I do. Young he wur Brig Young, I think, you called him." "The same." "In coorse, I remember him well enough; but I reckon our Marian do a leetle better. He tried to spark the gurl, an' made fine speeches to her; but she couldn't bar the sight o' him for all that. Ha! ha! ha.
"But there are pure white men among them outlaws who have run away from civilisation and turned renegades as also captives they have taken, who become Indianised, as the Mexicans call it. Doubtless it may have been some of these we saw." "Wall, you may be right, Frank. Sartint thar war one I seed wi' a beard 'most as big as my own only it war black.
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