The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-09-14

bout the Gray Wolf and poor Injunf
Catch UNI white squaw frs; then blow
UNI up Chelakee camp and catch UNI
Captain Jennif' and Captain Long
knife If can. Heap do frs thing frs
and las thing las. Wah!"
1t was the longest speech this de-
voted ally of ours was ever known to
make; and having made it he went
dumb aagin save for his urgings of US
forward. But present both he and I
had our hands full with the poor lad.
The swift transition from despair to
joy proved too much for Dick; and, be-
sides, the fever was in his blood n he
was grievously burned.
So we went stumbling on through the
cloud-darkened wood, locked arm in
arm like three drunken men, tripping
over root snares and ranbl nets
spread for our feet, and getting we'll
sprinkled by the dripping foliage. And
at the last, when we reached the ra-
vine at the valleys head, Dick was
muttering in the fever delirium and we
were well-night carrying him a dead
weight between US.
Twas a most sbeart-breaking busi-
ness, getting the Pours ad up that rock
ladder of escap in the darkness; for
though / nae come out of the fire with
fewer burns than the roasting of me
warranted, the battle preceding it had
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shoulder. So. taking it all in all, I was
but a short-breathed second to the
faithful Catawba.
None the less, we tugged it through
after some laborious fashion, and were
glad enough when the steep ascent
gave place to leveler going, and We
could sniff the fragrance Of the pla-
teau pines and feel their Wire-like
needles under foot.
BY this the shower cloud had passed
and the stars were coming out, but 1t
was still pitch black under the pines:
so dark that I started like a nervous
woman and went near to panic when
a horse snorted at my very ear, and a
voice. bodilesS, as it seemed, said:
well, now; the Lord be praised! If
here amt the whole enduring"
What Ephraim Yeates would have
said. or did say. was lost upon me.
For now my poor Dicks strength was
quite spent. and when the chief and
I We're easing him to lie full length up
on the ground, there was a quick little
cry out of the darkness, a swish OF
petticoats. and my lady darted in to
fall upon Richard in a very transport
of pity.
ooh, my poor Dick! they have killed
you," she sobbed: "oh, cruel, cruel!"
Then she dashed out at us. why don't
YOU strike a light? How can I find
ANA tltSS his lul 10 III llie udlh
Your pardon, Mistress Margery," I
said; "'tis only that the fever has
overcome him. He has no sore hurts.
as I believe, save the fire-scorching."
"a light" she commanded; II must
have a light and Sc for myself"
We had to humor her, though it was
against prudence. Epraim
found dry punk in a rotten log, and fir
ing it with the flint and steel of a
great kings musket-one of his reav- /,
ings from the enemy-soon had a pine
knot torch for her. She gave it to the
Catawba to hold: and While she was
cooling over her patient and binding up
his burns in some simples gathered
near at hand by the Indian, I had the
story of the double rescue from the
old hunter.
Set forth in brief, that which had
as a miracle to Dick and me fig
ured as a daring bit of strategy made
possible by the emptying of the Indian
camp at our torture spectacle.
Yeates II the Catawba, following
out the plan agreed upon, had come
spying distance while yet we
were in the midst of that hopeless
b~ack-to-back battle, and had most
wisely held aloof. But later, when ev-
cry Indian of the Cherokee band was
Dusy at u torture trees, they set to
With no watch to give the alarm.
twas easy to rifle the Indian wigwams
Of the firearms and ammunition. The
they threw into the stream; the
nuskets they loaded and trained over
4 fallen tree at the northern edge of
The savanna. bringing them to bear
upon the lighthouse guard
gathered again around the great fire.
The next step was the cutting out OF
he women; this was effected whilst
The. h. r0npt-n9 nf9jN wa ma vino hjo t
call on us. Like the looting
Of the Indian camp, twas quickly
planned and daringly done; it asked
but the auieting of the two trooper
guards on the forest side of the tepee-
lodge, a warning word to Margery and
her woman, and a shadow-like fitting
them over the dead bodies Of
late jailers to the shelter of the
wood.
Once free Of the camp, Yeates had
his charges to a place Of tenn
porary safety farther up the valley,
the Catawba to cross the
stream to lay a train of dampened
When he had led the women to a place /
Of safety, the old man left them and
back to his masked battery Of load
ed musEets. Here, at ar owl-cry sig
nal from Uncanoola, he opened fire up
the redcoats.
Ihe outWork1ng OF the coup de main
was a triumph for the old borderer's
~generalship. At the death
dealing volley the Englishmen were
thrown into confusion; whilst the In
dams, summoned by the firing and the /
shrilling of the captains whistle.
dashed blindly into the trap. At the
right moment Uncanoola touched Off
his powder train and cut in with a
field far his rescue of Dick and
me. Continued Next Weekly
Cherry Growing.
Iowa Is making steady progress as a
fruit growing state. The census of 1890 re-
ported ~3.149,5SS apple trees growing within
her borders. In 1900 the number had