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The girl gave a low cry with a sharp intake of breath "Ah! One grows

tired of this everlasting American patience! Why don't the Plattville

people do so before they----"

"It's just as I say," Briscoe answered; "our folks are sort of used to

them I expect we do about all we can; the boys look after hihts, and

the ht to be more

afraid of them If he'd lived here all his life he would be You know

there's an old-tioes way

back into pioneer history andof it Old William

Platt and the forefathers of the Bardlocks and Tibbses and Briscoes and

Schofields et away

frohbors, mostly Skilletts and Johnsons--one of the

Skilletts had killed old William Platt's two sons But the Skilletts and

Johnsons followed all the way to Indiana to join inthe new

settleht where

the court-house stands to-day Then the other settlers drove theood, and they went seven miles west and set up a still A band of

Indians, on the way to join the Shawnee Prophet at Tippecanoe, caht them off with bad whiskey