Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 46: what you’re looking at

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INDIAN J mM. enough of the country to bring you safely through—that is, if you ever start,” added Uncle John, in a lower voice. — “ We shall start, of course,” said Halleck, as he lit his segar, “for we have no idea of keeping bachelor’s hall, and that is E the only reason, I assure yon—at least it is all I have.” “Can you be in earnest ?” asked Maggie, half provoked and balf amused at this careless, eff-nand way of meeting the & dreadful reality of the present. “T am, indeed, Maggie; I am not yet convinced that these Minnesota Indians are such terrible creatures, after all. Yout koow how easy it is for a body of persens to become panic- gtruck. Your brother saw evidence of that at Bull Run, last eummer.” Uncle John, his wife and Marian, were busy placing such articles as were imperatively necessary in the wagon, prepat- atory to their flight, while Will Brainerd, anxious and thought- ful,.had again ascended to his observatory, upon-the top of the house. The artist had essayed to help, but his awkward- mess had broken several valuable articles, and sent a half gcozen loaves of bread rolling beneath the horses’ fect, and he laughingly gave way to more nimble and dexterous hands. The proffered help of Maggie was also declined, and thus it was that she stood in converse with her cousin. “J can hardly belieye you are so indifferent,” said she, in answer to his last remark, ‘ Marian has told me_what hap- pened in the wood.” “'Y-e-s!” be drawled, emitting the smoke, in tiny puffs, from the corners of his mouth, alternately.. “ Yes, I made a capital sketch of it ; I think some of sending it to Harper's, only that I prize it too much. I never had a more docile subject for a ~~ before me.” ___ to make him a present for it.” “ Suppose Christian Jim had not been in the woe ” “ He did me a good turn, I am glad to admit, and Ta like a -_- picture in my life, than that same Sioux warrior, stretched out = _ “We shall aim for St. Paul, ‘pod. when you leaye, come directly after us. Jim will be our guide, and Will knows _ “He wants, and would accept nothing that looks like pay’. _— es and always prized.” JOO 2 but I can tell you what would be ris! received uF Ba SE when Ps md (E()