One Bright
Morning It Was Discovered That A Long Line Of Them Had Left Their
Tepees And Were Coming In This Direction.
They were riding single
file, of course, and were chanting and beating "tom-toms" in a way to
make one's blood feel frozen.
I was out on one of the little hills at
the time, riding Bettie, and happened to be about the first to see
them. I started for the post at once at a fast gait and told Faye and
Colonel Palmer about them, but as soon as it was seen that they were
actually coming to the post, I rode out again about as fast as I had
come in, and went to a bit of high ground where I could command a view
of the camp, and at the same time be screened by bushes and rocks. And
there I remained until those savages were well on their way back to
their own village.
Then I went in, and was laughed at by everyone, and assured by some
that I had missed a wonderful sight. The Crees are Canadian Indians
and are here for a hunt, by permission of both governments. They and
the Sioux are very hostile to each other; therefore when four or five
Sioux swooped down upon them a few days ago and drove off twenty of
their ponies, the Crees were frantic. It was an insult not to be put
up with, so some of their best young warriors were sent after them.
They recaptured the ponies and killed one Sioux.
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