Sunset Ranch: A Story of a Boy's Adventures in the West — page 136: what you’re looking at

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126 The Sioux Village. They speedily shoved him into a tepee and left him alone. Perhaps it would have been natural for any one in so desperate a condition to have lain awake and worried over his grievous state, but young Lee was an exceedingly practical lad and possessed of good health as well as a fair share of animal spirits, so that he chose rather to look at things from a busi- ness standpoint. He was fairly well treated, and had good friends, who would search far and wide to find his whereabouts. Karl had not been injured during the raid and stampede, as he had since learned, though two of the braves bore wounds that attested to the accuracy of the night wrangler’s aim at the time they rushed the saddle band. On the whole, Cuthbert had reason to be thankful matters were no worse. So he turned over in the easiest position his cir- cumstances would allow, and went to sleep almost as calmly as though he had been in the little den he occupied in company with dear old Karl whenever their duties allowed them to be near the Kelly ranch. There is nothing like having a phlegmatic disposition, or a control over the bodily forces by a determined will. Doubtless the feasting and clamor in the Sioux village over the success of the foray continued pretty - much through the night, but it did not disturb = rest of the tired prisoner, who slept “like a log, he himself expressed it later. When he awoke it was past sunup, and the in- terior of the skin tepee, which he had occupied in company with several bucks who must have come in later, was quite light. If Cuthbert was worried over the peculiar condi- tions that confronted him, he gave no indication of the fact. Apparently this thing of being carried off in so ConnicloOolkks.c©