The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1870-09-21

bueol a&f0Ttyi uuu 1SUO grass nor
notl,ing--ia some of tilein nights /
used to wislflto get lioihe agin.-
But Canvass and me was gofnS 10
igit gold. md 60 backl ficli aid see Sc
fthe old GlEs-but Which 1t can
never be. Canvas and me, done
the best we Gould. We didn't see
many injnns fi,st along; onst in a
while a few would hang around
behind ne, or we, woihd seesone or
two skurrying mp a canon. After
we got vel away from the set,le.
ffnents, they tried to stampede lie
cattle; 6,it VIC, WIS PREPARED for
| them, and they didpt get bnt a
few; II wasat pleasant ;ior q, man
TO be athmking Of 1njuns all the
time, aud many q night as I've
been on guard i .tliought / sec a
big one under every buslf.fs NV
old mother fasused 10 reid 1ins ME
Scripture abort roaring Iioass
and seeking 10 'devo1r,,, bit flat
book don't say nothing abons he.
ches' which, is lyeEY SINGULAR it it
makes for TO show ps how TO 60.
Perhaps the fcllers as wrote, ,iL new.
er was! in Arizona, 8 and I often
fiiongl,t' as how God left thnteoun.
try ont of his daS'Book, aas being
O. no 'account--leastwise, operhai,s
that was ffie rlace Wlisrc the sdsyl
IL squatted When ne Was iierked ont
tell on. 80. ~. -. w 80 a,
guess III lie up ,l. a liIiii, lille ; it
runs raytlIer heavy tonight" said
he, rs he filled himself another
glass, and continued :.s'iIaass nj s'ssl
we camped-ous one night at
the, jaw Of. q ea,,6n,s ate oarssap9
pers, and Canvas and me was on
guard together, in the carly
watch, We, used to mcct, at, the
end Of a walk, and stop a bit and
talk. Bnt we had cnod look ont
all the while. 1t was very dark
and every one was asleep. Bye
and bye, Canvas, says ne, sCen.
tire, I'm going UP to the spring TO
get a drink. The spring was
about a hundred yards up fiie
gnicll, among The bushes. sWeli,.
says &c don't be long. and If YOU on
see anything, YELL And off, he
went, whistlin'. softly like to his.
self; and l stepped away again.
lie was gone a long utime--longer
than he had any Ongi,tl to, and
though | hadn't l,eerd any noise, 1
was kind O. narvons. as we never
knowed irow many h,iuns might
he doggin' us. At Lust, I couldn't
stand it no longer, and put for
the wagons, and walked ur Jim
Bruce, which was outside, aud Bill
West, and l says to 'eln as how
Canvas had been gone too long.
and would they 60 along % me, to
look arter him; which, they did,
bein' good fellers, and never hard
TO do n 'go'd turn, partickly for,
me and Canvas, which lad often
helped them shoe their team when
the blacksmith was sick and we
went mp 10 the spring together
You couldn't see a wink, and we
dersent take a light for them
thieves to shoot us by. There was
a hig cottonwood CROWN just
aside of it, and we ran agin' this,
and hit something sittin' like. lean.
in against the trunk. Canvas,
says | Canvas, my boy, il that
your And lie never made me
no reply, bmt kept as quiet as a
skull on n tombstone. Jim
Bruce says /, inst scratch for n
lantern there's sonlethin' wrong
telt Of the body, and there was &
wet, sticky stream nponit. Can.
vas, says /, what is the matter q
and 10 word. Jim soon fetched q
i,ght and 'tl,eVes swas Canvas, stone
dead, pinned to- the tree by seven
arrows. And the thieves had en-,
off his hahds and put them In his
pockets, and cut off lis ears and
fastened them on his forehead"
Oh what a vengcinl glitter
slIone in the eyes of tie speaker I
."Young man, they say when q
woman loses her fret young un, it
breaks her, ard as how alion rob.
bed OF her Cubs is crazy but may
yOu never feel asT did when l saw
Canvas him as had been my pard;
had sot By the same fire, and drank
out OF the same Clipper and shared
his last terbacker with me-when
l saw old Canvas, cpt mp like q
sheep, and dead forever from me.
Ten thousand devils was ,uesin' at
my heart, and / sank, with yell,
down by his dead side" g :. .r1
The emotion of the stranger al.
most overpowered him, as hc re
called these agony days Of the past.
"They told INC af.erward that my
yell reused the camp and they
came rushing ont to the epring :
but / didn't know it then. 1 was
stunned like, and never knew what
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