Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1877-09-15

me around the neck, and Hoped me as
quick as lightnin' on my back in the
snow. My gun fell out o. my hands,
an there were more'n twenty squaws
and papooses jumpin' an yellin' around
me in less'n no time. made a spring
to get up, but she-devil grabbed me
in the hair and yanked me back quicker.
The Injin what had shot Wagner, who
laid dead not mOre'n 4 foot from me,
ketched up my gun, and clubbin' it,
whacked me over the head. If he
hadn't been cussed fool he cud jist as
well stuck the bay met through me. If
you think clip over the head with the
butt of q heavy army musket, in the
hands of Injin as big as two o. you,
an who loves you SO that he wouldn't
like any better fun than chawin' your
heart out say, if you think it won't
make you feel sick, mebbe you better
have i; tried on YOU once. 1t didn't
make me senseless, but l felt
all over like mans foot does
when it's asleep. Even if the
squaw hadn't been holdin' me down by
the hair, while a lot o. greasy little pap
pooses was poundin' an kickin' me in
the face, all of 'em yellin' like crazy
asylum. l could no more n got up
than could n slep' with an Injun! An
you kin shoot me if l wouldn't cut my
ears off an eat 'em raw rather'n do
that!
81 know'd Just as well as l knowed
any thing that nay hair were goin' to be
raised in less'n two seconds unless some
% the boys seen my fix and made the
devil present o. that Injin, l heard
some o. the boys give a shout, and knew
by the scatterin' 'mong the squaws and
young ones that some o. 'em were a
comm. Iheerd shot and yell, an
the squaw that had yanked me down fell
dead with half her body on me. The
big Injin was game any how. He kick
ed the dead squaw off % me, and then
set one o. his feet on my chest. The
numb feelin' had almost left me, and l
could see the fringe ON the leggins OF
the Injin. l knowed what he were af-
ter, an if ever man cussed and swOre
to hisself, that man was me, because
none CT the boys seemed to get there,
nor to shoot. Two o. the soldiers war
a comm for me all the time, but the
business was done so quick that they
didn't have time to shoot agin' after
KILN the squaw, till the thing were
over; but it seemed more'n a week to
me.
1.-THE Injin bent down quick and
grabbed me in the scalplock. Lord!
how he jerked. shut my eyes. Then
it felt as if some one had ripped cash
with dull pair o. scissors all round
the top o. my head, an then poured a
ladle full o. hot lead in it. A flash o.
the awfullest, sharpest pain tibet kin be
imagined ran all through me, clean to
the end o. my toes. Then it seemed as
if horse was hitched to INV hair an he
was struck with whip, give a sudden
spring, an tore the top o. my head of
from side to side. I cud feel my knees
draw up, and my hands 20 shut and
grab in the snow, and l set my nails
clean into the flesh. The sensation was
Jest as if from the top o. my head there
had run cords down through my body,
which were fastened in my flesh all
along, and that these had all tore loose
from my toes up, and followed the top
o. my head when it was jerked off.
knowed l were scalped, and that were
all l knowed for three days.
"AbOut the time lost my hair the
cav'lry came up, and the Injins was
licked, and they want many Of 'em got
away. The boys who seen the Injin
scalp me said they killed him; but, il
they did, they didn't get my scalp back,
1t mought got lost in the snow,
though. They sent me to Laramie, an
for four or five weeks had leetle the
sorest head that ever set on any mans
shoulders. They let me come East ia
get sound, and Ire sence been hon ably
discharged, the COMMENT sayin' that q
man tina. had been scalped once by the