The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1869-12-21
" blew out both the lights, exclaim :


Darkness here and moonlight out
thar! Well be all right in q shake.
Jump for your tools boys, mi es handy!
Gals, lay low out o range, we'll 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
than minute, and as the Indians did
not seem disposed to make rush for
the inside of the house, crept quickly to
points where from the doors and win
dows they could pick the fiends out
from their coverts among the trees
around.
Meantime the twins had succeeded in
restoring the m other to consciousness,
and to the hurried inquiry Of her son as
to whom she had seen at the window,
replied that she had recognized tho face
of Jake M'Kandlas, the murderer Of her
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 basht
said her son. IF he'll only stay till we
thin 'em down a few, I'll accommodate
him with a private entertainment. Look
out for yourselves, girls-the boys are
giving 'em Jessie, and its about time my
hand was in
A rapid firing had been going from
the moment Wild Bill had 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 attack
ing party were not going unpunished.
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 number they we're at
least ten to one of the defending par
sWhar's the stock? Won't they try to
run that off P asked Wild Bill, rs his
mate. standing by his side, sent a Red
| to eternity with shot from his favorite
Hong rife.
Il expect they will. I would almost
as soon lose my hair as to lose Powd er
| Face, for the insect has carried me thro'
more bad scrapes than I've time to
count said Buffalo Bill referring to his
favorite horse.
.And I'll lose my hair afore I'll lose
Black Nell, for she never deserted me.
/ She'd kick the head off any Red that
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the horses?'
sWait ill give Dave and the boys in
here their orders, and then you an me
will get to the horses and come in on
'em like as if we were fresh hands in
the fight
That's the talk, Bill--that's the talk
Only let me and Black Nell and you
and Powder Face give 'em charge in
/ ;pr
Pepper into 'em then, till I tell the
boys where we're goin', SO they'll be
keerful how they shoot when we'ro a
comm.
Buffalo Bill nov. hurriedly told Dave
cry thing they saw move among the
trees, what he and Wild Bill intended
to do. The girls and his mother were
/ 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 If they were
already in full chase of them.
Dave Tut did not express any wish
to go along, which rather surprised Buf
falo Bill, for it was duty that brave men
would surely court. But there was
reason for this, as there is indeed fol
everything, as the reader will learn BY
and by.
The two friends, carrying g 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 moved
swiftly. They had bat little distance
now to go to reach the stock pasture
and they got to the last in the very nick
of time.
A half-dozen figures were already
there, and the horses, disturbed by the
firing, were very uneasy as these adj
| vanced.
Two shrill calls, understood well BY
the animals for which they were intend
ed, brought the noble animals, sBlacl
Nelf and Powder Face to the edge Of
| the grain-field. The next instant, need
ing neither saddle nor bride, the two
men were mounted, and without word
dashed forward upon the Indians who
were after the stock.
So sudden and unexpectedly were
| these observation-disclosures q shot being
fred, only the tomahawks used--that
there was no alarm in the grove. Then
the two men sped on, not noiselessly
now, but whoopihg and yelling in wild
concert, and urging their steeds taste,
| 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 il
there were twenty, rather tb&n two
Wild Bill and our hero dashed on, car
rying death at every leap.
The Indians, who were Cheyennes
supposing this to be reinforcement to
those who had defended the house so
| well soon gave way and fled in every
direction, but not before full half their
! number had fallen.
Curse them, why do they shoot so
careless from the house--this is the Sec
ond Craze l have had from there said
Wild Bill, as he wiped the blood from
wound grazing his cheek.
There's hole ia my hat from the
came quarter cried Buffalo Bill. I'D
like to know what thew mean. It can 4