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"I was close," said a young boy who Bull "I was close, and I heard the spotted buffalo running

about inside the village; I heard the children To-ht what ot

a new chief to-day They areI believe they are going to kill us all if we stay here" Thus

the partisan

So they did not stay there, but went away And at dawn Banion and

Bridger and Jackson and each of the colu war bonnets, shields and bows; and sos which had been once beloar bonnets The young ht on foot or on horse in full regalia of their secret order,

day or night The eear now

"We've beat the us now

Get the cookin' done, Cap'n Banion, an' let's roll out But for your

wagon park they'd have cleaned us"

The whites had by no means escaped scathless A dozen arrows stood sunk

into the sides of the wagons inside the park, hundreds had thudded into

the outer sides, nearest the enemy One shaft was driven into the hard

wood of a plow beas wide apart, shafts fast

in their bodies; four lay dead; two horses also; asroup of stern-faced wo which lay covered by

a blanket on the ground Molly Wingate stooped, drew it back to show