The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-07-02

and, catching hold OF the window.sil]
with his hands, thrust in his head and
yelled at us. He was an ugly-lookine
wretch-more like demon than d
human being.
The moment his head came in. almost
without thought, l fired at him. It was
only a charge of small shot; yet the muz-
zle Of the gun was hardly ten feet from
the savage. He gave a howl, and / heard
him tumble down outside the window.
The scoundrels probably supposed we
We're all children, and had no thought
that we had guns. They expected, no
doubt, to get our young scalps without
much trouble.
l had hardly fired at the savage in the
window when tho two in the door cut
through and stove in one of the panels.
In came the muzzle of gun! Charley
and Clint jumped off the prop and
lodged to one side, as the Indian fired
into the room. Clint ran at once and
seized his own gun.
The next moment the prop slipped
down, and both of the Indians came in,
headlong! One, thick, coarse-faced
rutfian, had an ak; the other, a very tall
Indian, had the gun he had just fired
through the door.
The instant they tumbled in Clint fred
at the one with the ak. Dropping the ak, he
clapped both hands over his stomach. and
with fearful sQueal, ran out, half dou-
bled up. vl"*a aa2 9ar 'aa3 a6t
hadn't had time to reload; but L
knew that the tall Indians gun was emp
ty. So raised mine and took aim at
him, as if was going to shoot. Out he
went at one leap after the other, to escape
being shot. a> +
We shouted and ran out after them,
and just as got to the door,I saw the
one Clint had shot fall at the edge of the
timber. The tall one had gone IN anoth-
er direction, and in a moment was out of
sight. ..s- t<"u"uiE. #@vlri&ag t#l@ !,
We ran out to the one we had seen fall
He lay amongst the dry fre-weed, Just at
the point of death. -"f| r
Don't touch him p Clint said.
Then thought Of the one had shot
in the back window, and we ran back to
look for him. He was not there. He
had either run off or crawled away, and
we never found him. ".3a.iIa<o22: ,:ls
The little scholars had come out
from under the benches, and were crying
over Mr.. Fifeld's body. But could
| think only of Lettie. I was sure the saw
ages had waylaid her, and I started fol
the "slew'' as fast as Icould run. expect.
ed to find her scalped and dead.
Before I had got to the "slew" saw
her dinner-baskct lying in the road. The
sight of it made me cold and sick at heart
Near it was her arithmetic and one of he1
scarlet mittens, and out in the ditch lay
her geography. ..aa.# .'t
Fairly Wild with excitement and grief,
called to her again and again. There
was no answer. Then searched through
the alder thickets about the s'slew" and
out into the timber. sE.t. ,.. - .aa ,
Not a trace Of her could find any
where, and I began to think they had
carried her of instead of numbering her.
I feared that one or two of them had hur-
ried her away, while the other three had
come to attack the schoolhouse. zs .
I came back into the road and started
to run to Mr.: :Eastman's, to give the alarm.
But just then heard some one calling to
me, and looking round, saw Charley com
ing from the schoolhouse as fast as he
could run. "5 5s2.# 80 ...5.-.a ~
"Letties found We've found Lettie p
he cried. .w...N. &c.,. ~
could have shouted for joy! 1 hardly
thought of poor Mr., Fifeld at all. Char
ley and Clint had found Lettie in the
timber, four or five rods from the old
stub where had first seen the Indian.
The red skins had tied her to little IRON
wood tree. She had cried out to the
boys on hearing their voices, and they
had found her. .,e.h .an e.. ~ u.@E'
AS she was coming along to school,
past the ''slew," an Indian jumped out of
the alders and seized her, and, before she
had time to scream, he put one Of his big
hands over her face, while two other saw
ages tied her arms. They then took her
along with them, through the wood, near
ly to the schoolhouse. ea"- II &
All three of these redskins spoke
broken English, Lettie said. When they
tied her to the little ironwood, they told
her they would tomahawk her it she cried
out or made the least noise. OF course
she was frightened nearly to DEATH
But she was safe now; and had it not
been for poor Mr.. Fifeld's indiscretion in
exposing himself, none of us would have
been any the worse for that attack on the
schoolhouse. 1 couldn't help thinking,
and cannot yet, that Mr.. Fiicld's death
may have been owing to my having vexcd
him by looking out to sec what had be-
come of Lettie. 81 3s52as+@ N.. .a.5