Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 16: what you’re looking at

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= af: a AR some beside it. Full. fifteen minutes were occupied a collecting and disposing of them, when all were seated. amp = - powling rapidly forward again. . =e _ By. this time it was getting dark, and ‘they. had. journeyed : Ss “several miles. a “ T suppose we shall reach Uncle John’s before moming _ asked the artist, as he was nearly unseated. by the passage: af .; one of. the. wheels over. an obstruction. a “Oh! yes; we. are. already: within..a .mile or two of: thee. mse. Look ahead; a little to the Jeft. “You seea light glim.§ = —-mering?” | pt Ves: very. plainly.” fea g That.is our house, and. we shall soon. be there.” Re “ Hadn’t you better take the ribbons? I really fear—really4 fear that the horse-will be injured.” _, “I have charge of the horse, and. shall continue to have a a charge until I set.you down at the gate.” | Well, Marian, let me affectionately advise you to begin ta : = hold in, else we may pass a. half mile.or so. beyond the. house, I was driving a lady friend out in the Central. Park this sum-. ‘mer, and, because I didn’t. hold én soon enough, I went staying... __-across-one of those grass plots, broke the wagon, and waa. _ fined twenty dollars, besides smashing up five hundred dellara | ‘worth of dry goods.” ___ The house.of “ Uncle John Brainerd,” sithongh standin = the State of Minnesota, was originally: constructed: | in the ce _ f Ohio. . Transported to the West, upon »reaching. its. destir = = zation, it arose somewhat after the fashion of Solomon’s Tem... - ple. It served well for a year or two, when.it was voted ~ witogether too small and. inconvenient. Several additions, __— “were made from.time to time, until, at. the present -period, it} had reached quite imposing dimensions. The outbuildings had}, - amilso. kept pace with the growth of the mansion itself, until, at4 _ the time of which we speak, the cn.ute nad a comfortable:and, eo ~ Shri y appearance, exceedingly inviting ta the wearied traveler, _ fr the aborigine, at liberty to indulge «.< natural,.propensities. : ‘ a ‘Through the gloom, a figure loomed up—aman ing pan trimmed. hat and in .his shirt-sleeyes—leaning forward. a ‘tthe, gate, in the attitude of a person who-was, waiting. 3 = oeapething horse was barely descried, when this man, ea. ane See | COmMmiIcHooksS-co vy to ee ae 7 ~— re _— om} ~ ys