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

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‘ -_— _ ARRIVAL OF \THSINDIAN. RR. - ado he seated himself upon. the porch, nigh: to Uncie John and Marian: He accepted ‘the pipe proffered: by the :foxmer, and seemed at once absorbed ‘in .the pleasure which: it yielded to him, while the conversation. was principally. resumed aa though it had-suffered no interruption. Adolphus Halleck could not conceal the interest - he felt. ia this being; in fact, it was so evident to those. around, that it afforded .all considerable amusement: He ceased conversing with Maggie, and gazed intently at him. ‘The positien of the Sioux was such, that his left side and a portion of his back was turned toward’ him. Although: it was an August night, he still retained his blanket to his shoulders, oblivious as much to heat as to cold. The moonlight was not sufficient to reveal distinctly. the. countenance: of the Indian; but in the ardor of his enjoyment, the fire within the bow] of ‘the pipe glowed like a burning coal, and illuminated. at intervals his whole face with its glare. At such times, the artist saw the short upper lip, finely-curved Roman .nose, the beetling brows, angular contour of the face, and low forehead, eround which hung a mass of black wiry hair that. hung below his shoulders. : The description already given of Christian Jim’s character, had strongly ‘prepossessed Halleck in his favor; and. thia, united with his romantic idea of the American aborigines as a class, made him the all-absorbing object of the young man’s fitterttion. Leaning forward in‘his chair, he keenly scrutinized him for some ten minutes, totally unmindful of the smothered titter he occasioned, or of the fact that his segar had entirely diéd out in his fingers. A broader intimation. than. usual, however, from Marian,-recalied him. to his senses, and drawing a match from his pocket, and UpPIE back in. his chair again, be said : , “Has he been on a hunt ?” “ August is not the season for hunting 4s “Where then did you procure that bear's meat?” “Tt was obtained by accident, and kept 60 long as we could safely keep it in this weather, specially for. you. aay, Jim ?”* “Hooh?!” The bronzed face-shot round as if on a pivo\ and confronted the girl. CORNICE NOOO: (EO)