The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1846-10-29

1 You amt come 10 lake me I ses he iookin'
as black as thunder
well am, boss, ses Ia sort quiet like.
and here's Gneral Pummer and Rafe Nor
gan come TO see fair play
You'd bl-dy sight better clear ont
while you can, ses he, for Fm not gwlne to
be taken alive Itell ye.'
Il dar say, SEES ii 'spected as much, and
| told The Gineral so; bur Pm the man what's
gwine 10 take you DIck.-The Gineral and
Rale won't do nothin,' jest 10 obleege me,
onless you try 10 streak it,
'Go way, Ru'-I don't want TO hurt you
ses he. Look here-you see Pm not onpre-
pared
That's fact ses |. You've gottwo rifles,
double-barreled shot gun, two pistols and
bowie knife, but il amt no use, hoss-you
must come
Must come! ses he, grppin' his rife and
getin' audaciously savage. Must GOMEZ
Look here, Ru' Bell faint five men can
take me, nor ten nuther-aad you know il !;
so you'd better be maxim tracks for the Bio
mighty quick, or I'll blow my rife through
you
THAT'S all Greet enough Dick, 81 |, look
in right into his eye all the time, for seed
he was getin' catawampous.- That's all
c'Feect Dick; but | didn't paddle all the way
up the Bio for noihin,' and il wouldn't look
we'll for me TO 60 home without you Be-
sides ses |, what would the Gneral and Raie
say? promised 'em fight, and ii would
be onlair 10 disappont 'em it would
well, ses he -lookin' as savage as she
bar what has cubs If yon ,cill have ii, blaze
away Them
mo, Dick. ses I, I'm made up my mind 10
4 capiivaie you, but IFS agin the law Tor me
to fire afore you've made any resistance so
shoot at once't or else SLENDER. 1t amt no
use lalkia' so much about it, for you mast
come
Stranger you should have hearn him rip
and cuss, when said that. He stomp'd and
he swore, and called me all manner of names
onta he charmed himself up into a 5roth
Bat it warnt no usc-he couldn't skear me,
nor yit put me in passion aud make me
forget what war doin'. I've fit the Ingins
too much for that. So all al once't he guy
shreek and blazed right away. seed
what war COMM and So lodged behind the
cottonwood tree. war Jest in time, for the
bullet ploughed along The bark and tuck of
a splinter right agn my mouth, and the wind
of it tuck away my breath, so as TO make
me slagger o one side leeile-when crack
comes another bullet and rips my bat right
off my head
Hooray! ses Stewart; that's twice't I've
bit you. Go home now like good boy you
can't take me-
ddu'I say nothip', but drops quietly
down behind the tree, and cufln' my rifle
round il bazes away at him, and bit him in
The side and when | seed him fall back
crawls to he other end OF big gum whal
laid on the ground rottenin,' and turns on
my back and loads my rifle agin in double
quick time; and peeps the Ieelest mite
through crook Of tue lin 10 see for Stewart
j Thar he was in the door way, with his teeth
close cenched and his eyes flushing, and
lookin' all about arter me with d kinder
snort. His tace was a leeie pale, aud the
! blood was noZln' cut from his sde-Well--
I've walled Jest so for a good while--he
d waichin' for me and | a peepin' for chance
at him; for he kept himself covered pretty
! much by the door-post--and it warn't no use
for me to fling away shot. At last | got
u ired and thought I'd better daw him out
d So lifted my hair on my head Till il stooc
straight like, and then showed il above tn,
e lOg.--Ciacki went his rifle agin, and
y felt the bullet scnp me--but didn't care
$ for that, but jumps and fires right into him
G | know'd bit him, for he guv a queer sor
% screw TO his month and Tell back behint
s The door-post agin.'
J well after This we wasted good deal @
y time walchin' for one another; but al last
o coiched his eye shnin' between the logs
:. and then thought | would try trick OF
|! him what had seen praetysed on the Jun
+ once't afore. So wabbled along on IN
II belly like sarpent till reached the cotton
P wood tree, and then clingn' with my lei
hand TO the tree swung myself suddenl
81 round il, and IS he fred jumped away viii
"a Ia shreak, and then lellright kenhump on Tia
e, 'arlh. The moment | did so he sprung on
p all bleedin', and struck for the canebrak
'e but Rale Morgan dashed lor'ard, and keich
D. in him in his arms flung him down--an
10 thar they wraslled lust one up and then l'oti
d err, till Stewart got Rafe undermosl--an
Y then seed him tumble at his side for some
sr Thin and presently Gineral Plummer call
81 TO me quick
ID Look out, Ru, look out! Shoot Siewar
10 the scoundrel, SEES he he's gwine to kuif
III Rate.
le 'And sure enough The bowie-kniGe wa
n about to make plunge when fired. We
n alters said Dick was a ra-al-roarer--wha
d dive think he did? Why, he dropped b
a knife aud flung Rafe uppermost. jest in tim
pi for my bullet o-perlorale him through.
ID what Morgan your frieudn
bt True as gospel, stranger. Ii was clea