A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . rider, if alive, to be somuch behind the schedule anxiously waited by the dimlight of their candle for the soundof horses feet, but their earswere not re\varded by the welcomesound. Cayuse, who was still in his bedwatching the countenances of thewhite men, suddenly sprang from hisbed, and, creeping cautiously out of rifle from its peg over his bed, and,walking to the door, peered out intothe darkness. Then he crept alongthe trail, his ears eve
A thrilling and truthful history of the pony express; or, Blazing the westward way, and other sketches and incidents of those stirring times . rider, if alive, to be somuch behind the schedule anxiously waited by the dimlight of their candle for the soundof horses feet, but their earswere not re\varded by the welcomesound. Cayuse, who was still in his bedwatching the countenances of thewhite men, suddenly sprang from hisbed, and, creeping cautiously out of rifle from its peg over his bed, and,walking to the door, peered out intothe darkness. Then he crept alongthe trail, his ears ever alert. Themen seized their rifles at the samemoment, and followed the littlesavage to guard him from being takenby surprise. All around the rude cabin whichconstituted the station, the boss hadtaken the precaution, when he first. Ghost Dancers the door, carefully placed his car tothe ground, the men meanwhilewatching him. He then came backas cautiously as he had gone out, andmerely said, Heap cayuses. It was not the sound of the ridershorse whom they had so long beenexpecting, but a band of predatorySioux bent on some errand of mis-chief; of that they were certain, nowthat the Pawnee had given them thewarning. ! Little Cayuse took his took charge, to dig a trench deepenough to hide a man, to be used as arifle pit in case the occasion everoffered. ll was to one of these ditches thatLittle Cayuse betook himself, andthe men followed the childs example,and took up a position on either sideof him. Lj^ing there without speak-ing a word, even in a whisper, thedetermined men and the brave LittleCayuse waited for developments. .4 LITTLE PAWNEE 67 Soon the band of savage horsethieves arrived at a kind of Httlehollow in the trail, about an eighth ofa mile from the door of the got off their animals and, India
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