Buffalo Bill: His Life and Adventures in the Wild West — page 26: what you’re looking at

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- . « i. 4 AL aay : ia’ as ‘BUFFALO BILL. — La) aa and, armed only with their revolvers, they But Sable Satan left. them ta Ret were ordered away by the Danites. _ | and they gave up the chase, wails. Billy But Buffalo Billy was not one to 89 his | hung about till the train-men cam me along, and joined them, receiving from one a J 7- saa lendid horse go without remonstrance, ined ! phys , Sie =a ‘eg fete did no good, oes ” all the highest praise 410Fr lis Baring ee se he could get | escape. are wre. Sk eo upon any terms He 5 Some anys AE ty Setenions ‘ rain- é Bor ’ the one who killed | men react Co) ridger, to und that gugh Hall, in eee nani time ago?” | other trams than theirs had been reb ed . & . asked the man who had Bilty’s horse. by the Danites. = » a “Tam.” For he had killed a ruffian of | mms shat name. | : ee ‘Well, I owe you one, for ho was my _ CHAPTER TX. ih pard, and you got me run out of the} gh Ey shew ona country by your work, 80 I’m willing to A HOT INDIAN FIGHT. me even b kee our horse.” Z Rake il ea ‘ ct a ian xy # Vu fight rg for him!” said Billy, S it was late in the, Sub eed r Wo fiercely, Simpson and his men were oc Qn 7 «What with, boy, fists or knives? " pelled to winter at the fo t, where ‘You are a fool, to talk that way, for | there were a number of troops an i, frain- : - you weigh double what I do; but Pil fight | employés of the contractors, Russ el, Ma- cou for the horse, with rifle or pistol!” jors, and Waddell, who were form ad i ni ‘0 The train-men tried e ae Be saa companies, officered by. wa gg00 from this determination, for they saw the | masters, sa Sia Danite was anxious to "take him at his As Wild Will was placed in ec ates word, and to kill him; but he had made | of the battalion of train-men, 2 the offer, and the Mormon urged it an, Buffalo Billy an aide-de-camp, & and the arrangements were made to fight: boy devoted himself assiduot sly to the with pistols at fifty paces, walking in on | duties devolving upon » and, before ‘gach other and firing till one fell, the long and tedious winter. = was a 4 : mm * 3 Lia dl <n a = 2 > tha 10, . one +7 in - - - « They at once took their stands, and Joe | forced to_ experience hardshi DS Smith gave the word, sayiug, in a low | severest kind, as the garrison had to tone before doing so— on mauie-meat, and had to haul woo d from ‘Ho's a boy in years—but he must be ths distant mountains themselves ,, their _ got rid of!” | animals having been served u D 2. 7 + " 7 ed ae A - - a, 1Vt Tee VUE , At the word, the Danite advanced ata| In the spring, Simpson: 8 varte 1. east, rapid walk, firing ; but Buffalo Billy stood | with a train, and Bufialo” Billy. ,ace vL still, and waited until he had received | panied him as hunter for th e men, his four shots, all coming dangerously near, well-known marksmanship and skull tt when he suddenly threw his revolver to a | securing game readily getting, for him level, and drew trigger. that position, |. a tik At the flash, the man fell, shot in the One day, Lew Simpson, and an “ axbre leg, and the duel ended. hand,” accompanied him on one ok A But the Danites would not give up the | hunting-expeditions, and, to horse, saying that a wounded man could prise, they came upon a band ~ not continue the fight, and, as Billy had | coming out of a canyon Boy not killed his foe, the animal could not be | them. Sb £55 “a claimed by them. | They were out on prairie, & “Wild Bill and Lew Simpson roundly | knowing they could not escape on th cursed Joe Smith and his Angels for a set mules, Simpson and the “extra; is I vt ase ; - sd « : . ; ° ‘ ' *y | % t . ee. La or rs) aor Ne of thieves, while Billy said, sadly— Billy to ride off on Sable Sate n, an I ge ¥ “Good-bye, Sable, old fellow—good- himself, Ss cares ahead o wy bye 1” But this the boy would 20h ¢ », SRY As he spoke, he went up to his splendid that he would remain with. fe ath horse, that stood saddied near, and, throw- “Then your horse mush, go W bh, od ing himself upon his back, with a defiant mules,” said Simpson, — | os (oogye ell, bounded away Kika an arrow fromthe, “ All right, Lew,” said Billy, thougas Ow, tears came to his eyes... | The Danites opensd a perfect fusilade| Telling them to dismoun of pistol-sbots upon tke boy, but they flew | came to a “ buffalo-wallow,” 28 Uh® M harmlessly by him, and a number mounted | holes are termed where the bison rove» and gave pursuit, a pig, Lew Simy bach sk <s:com 4 - ¢€ atsiret _. aa