The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-05-08

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CHAPTER II,
One afternoon, When we'd got well down
among the lower ranges, We were Just
looking about for a place to camp tfOr
the Spaniard who had gol hurt was be-
ginning to give up), when one of the
niggers said suddenly
"SenOr, man watch us
Hooked up, and there, sure enough,
was man IA savage looking fellow
enough, but evidently no INDIAN watch
ing us from the top Of ridge, little to
the left. He kept looking after us for q
little while and then disappeared as II
the earth had swallowed him,
"Dont like that" said Seth; shat crit
ter's seen that we carry heavy swag,
and he's gone to tell some Of his chumS,
YOU bet
"'Vhen one has found punkIn.pG
lie goes aud tells the rOthersP
81 feel like campin' in strong place
tonight, dor
And 10 We did-with deep canon
(goFge) behind ia going sheer down near:
" a hundred feet and n thick clump Of
trees in our front that made cover, while
beyond 1t the ground was smooth and
level for good eighty yards, so that no
living thing could come near lis without
being geen and fred at ~
Just as we'd lit our lire, and were be-
ginning to cook, we saw first one man
and then another, till we'd counted fifteen
in all, come zig1agging in and out OF the
bushes down the face Of the opposite
ridge. They halted Just al the edge OF
The thicket and took Il look at the smoke
Of our Are rising above the trees; ana
then two Of them laid down their rifles
and were coming across the clearing TO
Ma. looking "a friendly as they could,
when old Seth shoves his head through
the leaves and says in Spanish .,
"Gentlemen, we're talking over a little
business OF our own, and wish to be prl'
Iyate, as you'll oblige us by keeping your
Ownside, and we'll keep ours for we have
way Of shooting things that come TOO
near Us, and we should be sorry to MT
you by mistake !"
Back the two beauties went, looking ~
silly as ha'porLh Of treaclc in a two gal
: lon lug, and Seth rubbed his hands ant
! gave chuCkle. ,,L..
1 IThey'd got bottle III each hand, then
. two" says lie; "lhey war gwine to max
r Us slowed, and then clean out our swag
}, bat they don't fool this child, nohOw
| Naow, 20 see, they'll whit till dark, an!
y then go for us with a rnsh-thats what
I Inc matter with them--but ] guess vel
be not at home when they cal" seI
I lie whispered TO me 10 cut down tire
e or four Of the longest creepers and twi'
: them into Il rope; and ], guessing what Il
i wns up TO, did II with will. In a ie'
y minutes we had rope that would hay
J, stood anything and then ! hitched on
r end round tree and let drop the othe
IA down the rayine-the rest makinga grcI
o shouting and singing meanwhile, by wa
e, Of blind. Then the old Indian (wli
d WINS "a nimble rs cat) slid down to y
e bottom, and We lowered O,ir packs to hin
d ono by one. ..,. .,u
y we'll lust take L easy till dark, and tht
take passage by this new overland III
10 Of Our'n"
a. But one don't take II very easy witt
il there's n gang Of bloOdthirsty rasc1
sr twice your strength, and armed to y
~ teeth, every man Jack Of 'em, sitting wal
II Inc, barely eighty yards OIL TO cut ,yol
re- throat: and | think never found a.
g. time vet 20 10 slowly as those two ID
ut hours before shutdown. i.
ut "Naow," says Seth at last, when
.ir darkness had fairly closed in, u que
ey we'll begin TO leave VI, u.
lie But lust then, rs II II had been q sign
as there came a fash and bang from I
a other side Of the clearing, andhalf do1
h. bullets came pepperlhg IN among !
N. trees, felt something warm squirt cS
.et INV hands, and the niger fell oil Of
n, heap. Like lightning ] up piece ana !,
Iat Nv, and henr1sOmebody give a yep "
re sounded like the letter had gone to
Ut rioht address. And them for a lew nj
II, Mes, Il was iust flash, flash bankr bal
he liz 4 srSkSfk .-Seth Aid 4 keeping
ito in NAV while Tue rest Slil down one
nd nnp And nightly ugly work twas, !
ran isll YOU, blazing away In the ~
nv with nothing to aim at, and hear the y
ye Llets come raltling about you without e
AbIseeinr who sent them. But the tore
,at soon clear, and then Seth stuck up
rhL aeaI Niger against 0 tree, with his
or SSross t6e iork Of II, that they might
An. Jhe vlint Of the barrel, and think that
me wste ain on me watch. Then he
yes down and after him; 49,.
aHl THE first thing We did was to take
Ia t.i u iI,o i,rrr aid niRpar A back,
i'm. Sart II among iS. The res! O. Tie WI
md We thtowed away, "a weliad thrown =.
Ut nur Tools long before (tor our only ch il
al NOW wa 10 march AZ light as possit
md al ,Lsn we sel forward along the 81
nm. Far acme time we could hear the ras
ltey hanging away over head, but that
onp owSy by degrees and there was silenc
zen, II the world had just been cre0'eu "''
no life come into i yet. u-,,...
ling All that night we stumbled along
,vef bottom Of the favine like men gropiin
n. A tunnel, sitting down every now anu
, to TO rest; but when day came We saw
ant rocks on each side getting lower
eye lower, and the great black pit Sprea'
way out broader and shallowef, till at la
too iiitle after suntise, we came out into
Win ioEest again. But just then The. 0
full Niger sat down and put his hau u
the aide. ....w
fifty mo can go farther, senior Ill,
orn. I ran 10 him, and blest II he hadn'
ID lilo bullet wound in his side from
n;Sbi,s scfimmagc, and the brave ie
la,, had actually dragged on all night VII \.
. IN sSv;Tg a word about II, lest ne Sn