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Updated: May 21, 2025
'I've got to make a wagon to run behind it. 'That's it, eh? I thought you war goin' to ride on its back. How much will it draw? 'As much as four horses, and as fast as they can run. The hunter was half wild with excitement. The boy's delight was never equal to one-half of his. 'Skulp me ag'in, ef that don't beat all!
"How soon will you be back?" he asked, feeling that he ought to make no objection to the decision. The forenoon was about half gone, and the scout looked up at the sky, removed his coon-skin cap, and thoughtfully wrinkled his brows, as though he were solving some important mental problem. "Yer may skulp me, younker, but it's a mighty hard thing to tell.
There was not the sign of an Indian visible. "Skulp me! if that ain't a purty way to manage such things!" he exclaimed, astonished at the shape the matter had taken. "Them varmints couldn't have knowed that Sut Simpson owned that hoss, or they'd have tied him up tighter than that, and they'd had somebody down yer to watch him; but they war a couple of greenys, that's mighty sartin.
They rode up in such a position that they surrounded the captive, who was suddenly lifted by a couple of Apaches, and placed astride of the mustang in front of the young chief. The next minute the quartette moved off. "Skulp me! if I know what this means!" muttered Sut, who felt uneasy over the new turn of affairs. "Things are getting sort of mixed just now."
The struggle had been so short that neither Mickey nor Ethan knew anything of it, until Baldy dropped down among them, and announced what had taken place. 'Jerusalem! have they come as close as that? asked the Yankee in considerable terror. 'Skulp me, if they ain't all around us! was the reply of the hunter. 'How we ar' to git out o' hyar, ar' a hard thing to tell j'ist now.
"He knows that if he let a lot of the men go, they might get all chawed up, and it wouldn't help the boy any, so he thinks we kin get him out of their hands by some hocus pocus or other." "And what do you think, Tom?" asked his companion, in a confidential voice. "Is there much show for ever saving the skulp of little Ned?"
'Perhaps so; it will take some time to get such things in shape, but I hope to do it after awhile. 'Skulp me! but thar must be some things that you can't do, and I think you've mentioned 'em. 'Perhaps so, was the quiet reply. 'When you git through with this 'Western trip, what are you goin' to do with this old feller? 'I don't know. I may sell him, if anybody wants him.
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