Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 64: what you’re looking at

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- . a . ¢ “ F , — ~~ ie ae —e ‘ ; = a . _* ‘ ae 4 ; . & - . ad > * ‘ ‘ ee turned to. take.a last look. of the western home, now. 53 sinking into a mass of blazing embers, and then, with amxious . and foreboding, hearts,, started forward in. pursuit of theix aera: and endangered friends. eee er oe CHAPTER. VIII. FLYING TO THE RESCUE. ~ -—oo~ ~~ —|———— = ene © > Suorr.y after midnight, a. fine, misty rain begun: falling. which, continued without intermission until morning.. Both | horsemen were drenched to the skin, which rendered their. situation doubly uncomfortable. The artist was anxious ta. atcp and kindle a fire, but the young. settler strenuously oppose:! if, giving as a reason that # would inevitably attract. attention on such a damp morning. : The character of the country over which, they were now journeying, was materially changed. Instcadl of the com- paratively. level prairie, it was diversified by luxuriant vege- tation, streams, hills: of no inconsiderable elevation, and occa- ~ . sionally groves of timber. Of these latter, the settler invart- - ably manifested apprehension, and. took pains to make aa _, great a circuit around them as possible. - - 3 As: yet, they had. not detected a single sign of an enemy, ae and young Bramerd begun seriousiy to entertain the hope that . the devastating hordes of Little Crow, Wacouta, Wabashaw, a and Red..Legs; had not yet penetrated as far east as this, ; ie alihough. he could not fecl entirely at ease, from the fact thas 5 r a t= _ they had-reached his starting point the day before. — j . By the time the sun had reached the meridian, the wants Of nature beeame peremptory; they decided that it was as ‘well-to stop at once and secure what food was necessary. The -- gtreams..and lakes of Minnesota-abound. with fish, and the _-- ‘woors..with almest every specics of game, so that it waa Ss Bo dificult matter iO them to bring down what food they 2 "ib the woods were the proper place to, look, for thi CONNCIOOKS EO