Rocky Mountain Sam — page 114: what you’re looking at

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ROCKY MOUNTAIN SAM, — 105 right angles from the body, while he also carried the butt of another knife between his iron jaws, which he was likewise enabled to use with terrible advantage. ‘Thus armed, or fairly bristling with trenchant steel blades, seven innumber, from top to toe, and splendidly engineered in his airy movements by his comrade in the balloon-car above his head, it is left in a great measure to the imagin- ation of the excited reader as to the effect that was produced upon the foe by this novel and terrible mode of attack. he consequences of his fleeting passages through their terror-stricken ranks were much like those that must have been produced by aScythian or Trojan war-chariot of the olden ages, bristling with its swords and scythes, and urged by horses breasted and crested with iron spikes. As Big Horn was swung back from one of these slaughter- ing, mid-air raids, with blood and gore dripping from every blade upon him, the ranks of the Indians would reform once more. But away he would fly again on the return swing, in his terrible slantwise flight, first slicing open a savage with his mouth piece by a dextrous twist of his neck, then striking out and bringing down another with either hand, which motion would of course bring his steel-armed elbows into wide chopping play, while, at the same time, launching out with his feet, in vigorous kicks, his stiletto-pointed moc- casins would carve and cleave here and there, completing on horse and man the destruction which might have escaped mouth, hands, and elbows, only to swing back again—cut- ting and slicing on his return quite as much as upon his out- set —for another flight more deadly and murderous than be- fore. Human endurance—even that of the savages inured to desperate and bloody scenes—could not stand up against this terrible treatment for any great length of time; and as the hunters again charged from their barricade—supported by the few on foot who remained of what had been the forlorn hope—with renewed vigor, the Indians began to waver and break at more than one point of the line, notwithstanding the desperate endeayors and entreaties of I irefoot to the contrary. As the majority of them gave way, Big Horn swooped among them for about the twentieth time, striking, kick- ing, chopping, cutting and cleaving right and left, and the next instant their leader was gripped by the throat,- torn GComicbooks (ele)