The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1864-11-17

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the lodge. When we went outside, we
looked Immediately for some one near the
lodge, but there was not soul, and no
one could have been hid, for it was on
quite bare prairie, aud not bush near
it. We looked an the top of the lodge, as
he had told US, and there was a white
crow, which certainly had not been there
when we went into it.
$50 we returned to him aud told him
what we had seen then he said, 'Now tie
me up as close as you can, SO that cannot
we thought it was bit of humbug, and
we were going to use his cid ropes, so we
got our own good lassoes and lariats (horse
hair ropes,) and took his buffalo robe off
him aud tied him up; first, we tied his
hands behind his back he was squatted
on his hauls and heels, aud we tied his
legs together, and his hands to his legs; !;
then we tied rope around his body, and
tied him all of a heap as were, and
knotted the rope at every turn, so that
one would think that it would take man
at least half an hour to turn him adrift
Well, then, somebody proposed that we
should tie him in the net; this was seine
net that we had at the camp; SO we rolled
him up in it, knotted the ends together,
and also secured them again with rope
He asked us to put his knife near him !;
this we did, laying it down about yard
from him, as he was lying looking like a
ball of net. He told US to go out of the
lodge, and not to look in again until we
heard the bell ring.
"When we got out, we looked on the
top of the lodge for the white crow, and
had hardly noticed that it was gone before
we heard the bell. We rushed in, and
there was the old beggar seated in the
middle of the lodge as we had seen him at
first, with his buffalo robe on, and looking
as if nothing had happened to him, and on
his shoulder was the white crow. He tlen
told us to go out again, and this time we
were out perhaps five ninutes-but when
we went into the lodge again, there he was
tied up, looking just the same ball Of net
as We had lett him the first time But
the white crow was not to be seen. He
told us then to unite him, which we did,
and precious long time it took US to do
it, for he was SO firmly tied and knoited
up. After he was free, he sat for short
time, apparently to recover his strength,
and then began making medicine again,
whereupon, as before, the lodge waved,
the bells rang, the white crow came in
and flew in rapid flight, circling around
the old mans head, and when all became
still again: perched itself upon his shouI-
der. Then said he, Now you may ask
me what you want to know so Mr.. Ogden
said, 'We wish 10 know when Mr. M'Tav-
ish and his party will be here. The
answer was, 'On the third day from this,
at half an hour before sunset, you will see
him and his party coming down the hill
The next question was, 'Where is he now?'
The answer was, They are camped upon
a certain creek naming it. He was then
asked, 'Wh.t has delayed them SO long "
and he answered that they had been de-
tanned in the mountains four days by
snow. Well, sir, On the third day from
that, just about half an hour before sunset,
sure enough there we saw the party COM
ing down the hill, aud when they got into
camp they told us that three days before
they had been camped on the creek that
was named by the old man, and that they
had been delayed in the mountains four
days by snow"