Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1875-08-19
''sculped."

'Injunss, stranger-Injuns2 Yes, l
know the whole gang of 'em, from
Red Cloud and Spotted Tail down to
the toddling papoose. I ought to
know 'em-Ive fit 'em for nigh on to
thirty years
He was a grim looking old man,
With grizzly locks in view under his
coonskin cap. He had on a bear skin
coat, Indian mocasins, buckskin shirt
ana leggings, and he held long rifle
between his knees as we talked.
These western railroads are rapid
ly civilizing the country-fast killing
OF indians, wolves and buffaloes.'
de looked around the car, which
was handsomely furnished and finish
ed, and sighed as he replied:
les, times are getting wuss and
wus down this way. I've been think
ing of going up to the Yellowstone,
whar man can go out any time of
DAY and get up square fight with a
grizzly, or raise rumpus with the
reds.
Yeu must be quite an old man?'
Only bout sixty. 1 amt quite so
Timber on long run, and cau't sleep
quise SO well with the rain pouring
down into my face, but if 1 thought
1 wasn't good for any three Injuns on
the plains, or any grizzly that ever
stood on legs, I'd ak ye to shoot me-
ON must have seen wild times out
here p
/. Purity wild; purity wild, mused the
old man; there used to be heaps of
reds out here, to say nothing Of the
wolves, bars and rattlesnakes, and
thar was times when death rose up to
shake hands with me-
Ever taken prisoner p
q might have been-I guess l was,'
he said, as he uncovered his head.
Why, you've been scalpedp
They call it sculping, strangerp
and who did that 2
didn't use the knife, but he stood by
and hollered and encouraged the chap
who did it.
Your sensations must have been
terrible'
There wasn't time to feel any SEN
sations, stranger. They sneaked in
on me and Tom as we dozed, and
when I woke up Tom was riddled and
my acuip was hanging on an Injun's
beIt!' ''... -
fAnd what then p
Nothing much. I get up and killed
two, wounded another, and legged it
up cannon and got away If it were
to do over again I'd get my topknot
back or fight the whole Sioux nation
till somebody went undet
he seemed lost in reflection for a
moment, and then continued:
4 don't know what scalps are wuth
in the market, but guess I've got the
full value of mine. I've knocked over
rising on thirty Sioux since that night
and guess I'd be willing to pass re
ceiptsP
sIsuppose you've had turn at half
3 dozen different tribes P
Less see?' he mused. 'Thar's the
Sioux, Blackfeet, Pawnees, AErapahoe es
Shoshones, Cheyennes, and three OIL
fOussofher tribes They We all hunted
me, and I've hunted them. and I canst
say as they owe me anything
I notice bad scar on your face
Purity good scar for common man,
but can show you the sculp lock oil
the Pawnee who made it. He jumped
on me jist after / had swum river
and he thought he'd got hold of 8
jack rabbit. Twas bad eut, and il
kind mazed me at fust, but when
did come to, he was gone before he
could yell twice! 1 said it was a pur-
ty good scar, but it isn't quite equa
to this
And he pushed up the Logging or
his right leg and exhibited a scar
which made me draw back. The foot,
ankle and the leg as high as l could
see had been burned by fire.
The BIackfeet had me fast to &
stake once, ye obsarve,' he explained
That was the time they poked each
other in the ribs and said they had {
dead sure thing on old Carter, bu
they was mistaken. They had m,
three days, and Ia been kicked ant
cufed around until there wasn't anN
more fun in it, and then they tied M
toa stake and lighted a fire arount
Eme. Twas pretty cluss, stranger
pretty cluss!
/ And how did you escape?'
Half dozen of my old pard
came along jist in time to knock owe
half the band, and save me-
!. There was silence again while b
unbuttoned his shirt and showed me
bosom Utterly grid ironed with scars
well thar may be two or thre
knife-cuts thar he exclaimed, but tn
heft of them scars was made by
I grizzly. He wasn't one of these b'a
calves that some folks knock over am
blow about, but regular three story
old fashioned grizzly, such as ye don
: find outside the darkest canons in tn
Rockies. was bending over the fir
{ when the Yarment slid down a cano
| and Wuz right on hand afore I ha
] any warning
: tAnd was it hard fight p
1 1T Wuz a purity fight, stranger, bt
cause it was fair fight. 1 had bi
knife, and he had teeth and claws, an
we went in to kill. He wuz good gri
but a little slow. Thar waz abol
E thirty days after that leetle epysod
that my pard had to nuss me like
9 child
q And you mean to die out here?'
That's for the Lord to say, but
: 'spects yer more'n right. The InjuI
!. are purity quiet down here, and the.
= kesrs are bringing heaps of peop
: West, but I'm going up whar whi
x man won't disturb the Lords work fl
hundred years to come! I feel kin,
> er mean and small down here-as if
J was hunting rabbits, but up the Ye
q lowstone fellow kin brace up aft
Q he's knocked over a red or two al
!: feel as il he Masn't fnoling AWAY h