Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 54: what you’re looking at

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= Brainerd, at the artist’s earnest solicitation, seated himself — _ beside him. 2 “You see, Will, you might as wel take things easy. Now, if we are going to have a visit from these dusky sons of the _ forest, why iet them come. I am certain J should enjoy their igre | visit very much, it would enable me to enrich my portfolio’ ___ | eonsiderably.” . “JT don’t know,” said Brainerd, with an air of slight vexa- {| tion, whether this indifference of your's is entirely genuine or. - |mot; but I should think the experience of the day would have _ 4 demolished some of the ideas you had Jast night.” . } oS “Not a particle, not a particle,’ langhed the artist, in such —{& jovial way, that no one could be impatient with him; _ {what a laugh we shall have over this scare, when we meet {down at St. Paul.” . s cae “Yes, of we ever get there! You can make up your mind _ {to one thing, Halleck, the blood in your veins will ‘ freeze ___| with horror,’ before you get out of the State of Minnesota. I {have lived here long enough to know what these Indians are, When they are fairly aroused. There is no crime too great _ |\for them to commit, and there are no lengths to which they — {will not go. I believe death is very, Wery ciose to some of 49 _. {-—far closer than most of us imagine.” ee As the night approached, young Brainerd grew painfully ‘restless and apprehensive, while the carelessness and indiffer- Can Catia Ee < re of the artist, became, if possible, greater than ever. == Now he lifted the spy-glass to his eye, whistled a few mo- - menis, then hummed“ Marching Along,’ and speculated upon ___ the probable shade of news from the seat of war. The sky, ae ee _ ‘which was still overcast and threatening, failed to break forth in a storm, and it was evident that if any rain at all fell before f morning, it would be nothing more than a mist or slight | : ‘shower. As the night deepened, the artist again placed away ' the instrument, and turned inguiringly toward his companion, as if to ask him whether he intended remsining longer upora = the roof, now that their vision was so limited. . aS | hardly knew what to say,” he answered, in great per- plexity, ‘ “first look to the west and north-west, and see tha. glare against the sky. I tell you, Halleck, they have oniy oy ee Their blood - is fairly up, and these es a L - a eae RN yu)” bie , sACo be ore ify van te) ‘ , oy J * ‘ a : \ 4 ta***h } ," aa aera? ; 45 Cheat N Ty si q | Gomichooks co