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Updated: May 9, 2025

Still I looked, and saw, upon the top of the knoll, in bold relief against the sky, two Indians sitting upon their ponies. One of them held a hand in the air above his head, which Jerry at once said, was the Apache way of asking for a parley. "We'll hev ter give it to 'em, though we must be mighty keerful," continued he, "'cause it's next to sartin, thet therain't no two on 'em out there alone.

Samuel Woodworth Cozzens - The Young Trail Hunters : Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West