Beadle's Frontier Series #25: Indian Jim—A Tale of the Minnesota Massacre — page 93: what you’re looking at

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eh al «| |» ot ee 2 ae THE CAVALRY OFFICER, See 95 “matiner, that was far from ‘displeasing: Ks ag our riénds Tooked- upon hith as: a deliverer’ sent y 48° an Sawer to their petition, and it is needless tov say that they ‘felt the strongest’ friendship toward ‘him. . He Waited’ until ‘every thing had been told him, and*thén he ejected ‘another mouthful of tobaccd juice, and said: . Well, alt we've got to do is to itat-’em’ he ‘avid git ' the «gals back.: _My men, a although rathet- @reen soldiers, have seen something of this. kind of work “before;-and I ‘think we’ can ‘make a-neat- job of it. The question: I want _ to ask, is whether that piece of ‘coppery beauty there, -couldn’t afford us. alittle assistance? ” - Christian Jim made no reply, until directly: appealed to, and then his answer was rather dubious; _ | “Dunno.” | . “Don’t know!” repeated the Captain; “then ‘I ‘know. When we wanted to hunt secesh or guerillas down in Vir- -ginia, we managed to get hold of some of their’ contrabands ‘to lead us to their-holes, So, if. we want to hurit-red-skins, we must take a red-skin to guide us, arid you're theidéntical beauty we want.” : The two horses ridden by the young “men: Were’ wait- dering over the prairie, snuffing-the ait, as if’they scented danger, while those of the fallen’ Indians, cutioushy- eiough, ‘had not been taken away by ‘their Suryivin® Cortipatiions. ‘These, after considerable difficulty; were captured by the ‘horsemen, and’ our. friends. were. soon ‘well mounted. It was now considerably advanced ‘in the ‘afternoon; and — as it was all-important that the Sioux-should he overtaken before. nightfall, no time was lost in unnecessary delay. Lhe prairie, interspersed as ‘it was with hills; ‘streams, and “woods, made it possible that the whole party of ‘Indians might be but a short distance away, although they: had dis-, appeared for some -time. from sight. Still, it was: hardly probable, and Christian Jim proceeded on’ that supposition. A half hour’s ‘sweeping gallop brought: them to quite an “elevation,over which the party had disappeared, aiid beyond | _this, our friends forded. quite a considerable streaii, upon the shore of» which, they: diseovered. certain’ €vidences of _the passage ‘of those for whom they were seeking. Béyond. this, they had quite another stretch of open aw they reached a =e portion of timber. : comicbooks.com