Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-27

of the provender left in the wagon, and
that the old man was returning, Carrying
the baby in his arms. and conducting the
wife.
Tho warm fire vas reached. Il wss
built just outside d small ca7c. spa sur-
rounded by sharp, broken focks, which
had sTideI,tly fallen from above.
The travellers told their story Of the
burning3 rancho; and then the old man
stated that be had been chased INTO Free
mopt's Butte, (the name of this peak, and
had fought from his present position with
the Indians only lew hours before. He
added:
81 believe that there's a lot OF EN- skulk-
in, about yet. At all events, think it's
best to wait here for short time, jist to
see what1l turn up. Are you Altered of
fire, stranger Z"
"When they attack us, you may judge
for yourself" answered the young man,
smiling.
"That's good You've brought blankets
lie down an sleep, an I'll do the same.
Pete, my dog, here, can smell Ingen a
mile. He'll give the alarm if thar's any
danger"
The travellers were weary and they
slept soundly, warmed as they were by
the cheering fire. But near daylight they
were suddenly aroused by the furious
barking of the dog. The young man
sprang to his feet and seized his rifle and
revolvers. He found the old hunter al
ready up, and at the instant he discovered
his rife and savage came whirling
through the air, uttering wild yells, and
falling into the very centre of the hum
ter's strong hold. The dog Immediately
seized him as he would have done a rat,
and shook him until the wretch ceased to
struggle or groan.
Occasionally a savage head would ap-
pear above the rock, and shot from the
old mans gun was sure to crack the era
ninm of the red skin so venturing At
every shot the hunter would say
"There's old Pauls mark for you"
Presently there came series of I'M
eartly yells, and not less than twenty saw
ages came tearing over the rocks, into the
circle. The hunter shouted:
''Club your ifle-stranger-fght like
the devil-now's your time and he set
the example by commencing the attack |
in most furious manner.
Not less than half dozen of the red |
skins fell under his terrible blows, and |
then he looked around him in evident |
surprise that there was no longer foe to |
fight. He there saw over twenty dead /
bodies before him.
"How is this, stranger !" he said look
ing at the dead Sioux.
.sThe work of my revolver" quietly re-
sponded the young man.
80, then, you've got brace OF six
shooters 7"
"No, one seven and one seventeen shoot
err"
Thunder Lets start at once. Well
face all the reds we meet in Colorado.
Come"
The party left their stronghold, when
another sharp fight took place with some
twenty other savages, half of their number
falling. The others hearing the shot
continue. believed that they were at
tackled by overwhelming numbers, and
fed. The old man loaded his rife, and
made a last shot at a savage who coulo
not have been less than twelve hundred
yards off, The Indian fell, and the hunt
or exclaimed:
"There's old Paul's mark again"
"What is your other name 2" asked the
lady traveller, approaching him.
"Paul Jason is my name, please ye,
una am"
"Then. there's Lucy Morton's mark T
she cried, throwing her arms around the
neck of the old hunter, and kissing his
bronzed lips.
The hunter started back, rubbed his
eyes, and then, catching her by the hands,
he cried: /
"No-no You don't mean to say that
you're my little Lucy, that was married
to a man named Charley Morton, what's
got baby, an comm out to Denver toI
i've in my new brick house,"
Eyes; / am the same"
The old hunter embraced his child.
kissed the baby fifty times, and then
turning to Charley, he said, as he took
lim by both hands /
by thunder, stranger-no, 1 mean
Charley, if my Lucy hadn't married you,
never would have forgiven her, for
you're jist about the bravest little chaI
and the best Ingen fighter for green
norm that ever did see. BY thunder
but shall be proud of You"
The mules had not been molested, ane
he balance of the journey to Denver wa
in safety. And the old maj
never was happier than when introduc.
ing his son-in-law, and telling of then
great Indian fight, always making Char