Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 28: what you’re looking at

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: ‘ — ) 9 o— eeeee re em © . ~ ad > Pes _ INDIAN JM > : ‘ _ 4 J dream there was the least danger here, we would. Bhart ‘past 7 4} Instantly.” se “Wouldn't it be best for all to take tickets to St.. Paul son {the ‘steamer to-morrow ?” asked Halleck, who betrayéd consid- erable interest in the statement of the Indian. “igh ould. we. Jeave. the firm: it would ‘be-platiteréd by ‘the | ‘ @hieving Indians, during our absence ; and I cannot afford’ ta lose what I have accumulated at this advanced period of ‘my - Jife.” ' “But, father, suppose our safety should demand it?” | ~“Then IT should not hesitate a moment; but I do not feat! any immediate danger. There may be an outbreak, fer you know we had a hint the other day that such a thing might occur; but it can’t spread te any extent before it must be put down. ” “The savage is vengeful and furious when the devil within pim is roused,” remarked Haileck, who had lit another, Ha- Wana,“ but, as I contended at the tea-table, he has many chiv- alrous feclings, and, depend upon it, his warfare is alwaya @ondvctcd upon an honorable basis. Christian Jim, won't you take a segar? I think they are preferable te a pipe.” “Don’t want it,” replied the savage, without moving his bead, . “All right—no offense Uncle John, I don’t think there is any need of being frightened.” “There is danger—that much is certain; but, whether it hangs over us, is another thing. Didn’t you hear any thing of trouble among the Indians, when you came up on the boat ?” ) { “Since you’ve spoken of it, I call to mind that I did.iear “peverai speak of some outbreak that was feared on account ‘of the annuities being held back; ‘but I made up my mind-they f were only. slandering the ‘ aboarysinis, ’ as my friend, Charley . Browne (alias ‘Artemus Ward) calls them. It does seem to me that oll with whom I converse take ft into their heads to dibel the red-men.” “Ah! my. boy, what a change of opimion you wih: undergo ere you are.a-year older,” said young Brainerd, who appeare. ‘more affected by the news of the friendly Sioux than even his _ father was, “ The legends that our forefathers have brought COMMENOOLK<S (F@