The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-11-12

make it a. common retreat. When
their work was done the place seemed
capable of resisting considerable num-
bers.
Owing to the presence of a bobolink s
nest near the fort they had called
the place Fort Bobolink, and the boy
settlers were determined to defend it
to ''the last extremity
When Ned Talcot, the boy who first
heard the tidings of invasion, reached
Fort Bobolink, the sun was setting
and after brief inspection, he ran
back to the settlement where he found
all in g. state of alarm.
A hurried council of war between
the seven boys of the settlement and
the women was held.
We can't defend the scattered cab
ms; we may all together defend Fort
Bobolink," said Ned. There is no
telling how soon the allies will show
up in this section; but if they really
have abandoned the siege they are liza
bic to be here this very night"
The settlement was so near Fort
Meigs that during the siege those left
at home had heard the noise of battle
and all knew that it would not take
the fieet-footed Indians long to over
run the forests adjacent
The council of war at once decided
unanimously to go at once to Fort
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they marched down to the fort and
prepared for the expected attack.
Captain Ned had stationed his guards
within the fort with military precision
and every few minutes he made the
rounds to see that watchfulness was
not abated.
The mothers hod
children to sleep and now with wake
full eyes they waited in the darkness
for the foe.
At 10 o'clock a bright moon in it's
third quarter made its appearance.
This gave some light and enabled the
boys to see the outlines of the trees.
Suddenly one of the young sentries.
looking through a loop-hole, discerned
moving figures where a moment before
he had seen but waving grass. H He
signalled Captain Ned and they
watched the figures together
THE enemy have comer' said the
boy as he turned back and faced the
women.
In an instant the seven young de-
tenders Of the cabin stood at the loop
holes with rifles IN their hands.
Gradually the skulking figures drew
closer, till at last they halted among
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link.
They were savages, as the boys could
now see by their dress They wore
feathers in their scalp locks and
carried guns in the hollows of their
naked arms.
1t was the advance force of the
frontier scourges and the boys of the
Maumee knew that before daylight
the bloody work would begin.
Half a dozen braves were within
easy rifle shot of the fort, and as the
boys watched them they put their
heads together and pointed toward
Fort Bobolink, while they talked in
tones too low to be distinguished.
They probably do not suspect that
we are prepared for Them said one
of the boys. "They very likely think
Fort Bobolink is an ordinary cabin
without defenses.''
If they attack it they will be bit
terly undeceived,' replied Captain Ned.
"Ah, here they conner
The six Indians had separated and
We're crawling through the grass to-
ward the fort, taking good care to
keep in the shadows of the stumps of
the clearing; but now and then the
watchful boys caught sight of dark
red bodies that seemed to possess the
movement of the cunning Of serpents.
1t was a, moment of suspense to all
on the inside and a babe that cried
just then was seized by it's mother
and hastily hushed
Don't fire. said Ned Let them
show their intentions. We are on the
inside with ten good rifles and staunch
logs around US.