The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1869-12-17

sitting-room, when Mrs. Cody, whose
face was toward the window, screamed
I out in sudden terror, and rose to her
feet with face 30 desthly pale that it
seemed as if she was death-stricken.
what is it notherP cried Bill,
springing to her side.
The windoW-he was thereP she
gasped, and then she sWooned away, 2
'He!s Girls look out for mother Pll
see what he was at the windowP cried
Bill, and he sprung to the Opsu case
ment.
As he did SO, bullet whistlsd past
his ear and struck the opposite wall,
while hundred wild yells proclaimed
that Indians had surrounded the house.
Wild Bill, cool and collected Instant
ly blew out both the lights, sxclaiming:
Darkness here and moolight out
thar! Well be all right in shake.
Jump for your tools boys, mines han
dy! Gals, lay out o range, ws'n soon
let the reds know old hands are here
The three young men, reinforced by
three negroes and one white man, the
farm hands, were ready for work in less
then a minute, and as the Indians did
not seem disposed to make a rush for
the inside of the house, crept quickly
to points where from the doors and
windows thsy could pick the fiends out
from their coverts among the trees B.
round.
Meantime the twins had succeeded in
restoring the mother to consciousness,
and to the hurried inquiry of her son as
to whom she had seen at the window,
replied that she had recognized the face
of Jake MKandies, the murderer of her
husband, glaring in with look so full
of hate and Vindictive cruelty that she
was completely horror stricken. !,
There's too many reds out there, or
I'd make a rush and settle his hash ?
said her son. If he'll only stay till
we thin 'em down a few, I'll accomo-
date him with a private entertainment.
Look out for yourselves, girls-the boys
are giving 'em Jessie, and it's about
6iluo IL uduN wac III ..
A rapid firing had been going on
from the moment Wild Bill got to the
door, the Indians shooting at random,
for all in the house was dark except the
flash of the guns, but every now and
then yell of agony told that the at
tackiug party were not going uupunish-
ed. l..1, e....
They could only be seen as they
sprang from tree to tree for cover, but
their terrible yells ringing through the
air told that in numbers they were at
least ten to one of the defending party.
'Whar's the stock Won't they try 10
run that Off asked Wild Bill, as his
mate, standing by his side, sent Red
to eternity with shot from bis faYorite
long rife.
4 expect they will. l would almost
as soon lose my hair as to lose Powder
Face, for the insect has carried me
through more bad scrspes than I've
time to count said Buffalo Bill, refer
ring to his favorite horse. es liza u
And l will lose my hair afoEe III
lose Black Nell, for she never deserted
me. She'll kick the head off any Red !
that tries to mount her. But can't we
get to the horsesT .r sr 81, v,t-r
Wait till l give Dave and the boys
in here their orders, 'em like as if We
were fresh hands in the fight = - 5.oI
That's the talk, Bill that's the
talk. Only let me aud Black Nell and
you and Powder Face give 'em charge
in the rear and they're gone in!' 4
Pepper into 'em then, till tell the
boys here where we're goin', so they'll
be keerful how to shoot when we're
comm" s-..s.,, ais. i,
Buffalo Bill now hurriedly told Dave
Tut and the men, who were firing at
everything they saw move among the
trees, what he and Wilds Bill intended
to do. The girls and his mot ber we're
to know nothing of it till it was all
over, for the two Bills felt as sure of
driving off the foe by their plan as il
they were already in full chase ofthem.
Dave Tut did not express any wish
to 90 along. which rather surprised Buff
falo Bill, for it was a duty that brave
men would surely court But there
was a reason for this, as there is indeed
for everything, as the reader will learn
by and by.
The two friends, carrying their arms
and bending low in the shadow of the
garden bushes, crept away from the
house until they reached a grain-field |
beyond the trees, into which they NOV
ed swiftly. They had but a little dis
tance now to 60 to reach the stock pas
ture, and they got to the last in the very
nick of time.
A hslf-dozen dusky figures were al
ready there, and the horses, disturbed
BY the firing, were very uneasy as these
advanced.
Two shrill calls, understood we'll by
the animals for which they were inten-
ded, brought two noble animals, Black
Nell and Powder Face to the edge
of the grain-6eld. The next instant
needing neither saddle nor bride, the
two men where mounted, and without
a word, both dashed forward upon The
Indians whe were after the stock.
So suddenly and unexpectedly were
these overwhelmed-not a shot being /
fired, only the tomshawk used-thst
there was no alarm in the grove, Then
the two men shed on, not noiselessly |
now, but whoopiug and yelling in wild
concert, and urging their steeds faster
by their cries, till they were upon the |
rear of the astonished redskins, pouring
out shot after shot with deadly effect on
the enemy.
Wheeling and circling here and there,
never missing a shot-it seemed as i'll
there were twenty, rather than two -
Wild Bill aud our hero dashed on, car
ryipg death at every leap.
The Indians, who were Cheyennes, I
Supposing this to be reinforcement to
those who had defended the house 50
well soon gave way and fed in every
direction, but not before full half their h
number had fallen. ' .tT 2"
Curse them, why do they shoot 50
careless from the house-this Is the
second Craze have had from there,
cried Wild Bill, as be wiped the blood
from wound grazing his cheek. Il
There's hole in my hat from the
same quarter said Buffalo Bill. 'rd