Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . istance of fif-teen or twenty feet, and threw his toma-hawk with all his force, butJoe had his eye on him anddodged it. It flew quite outof the reach of either of then clubbed his gun andmade at the Indian, thinking toknock hira down. The Indiansprang into some brush, or sap- THE INDIAN THROWS niS TOMAHAWK AT JOE. UngS tO aVOld MS blOWS. ThC Indian depended entirely on dodging, with the help of the saplings. At length Joe, t
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . istance of fif-teen or twenty feet, and threw his toma-hawk with all his force, butJoe had his eye on him anddodged it. It flew quite outof the reach of either of then clubbed his gun andmade at the Indian, thinking toknock hira down. The Indiansprang into some brush, or sap- THE INDIAN THROWS niS TOMAHAWK AT JOE. UngS tO aVOld MS blOWS. ThC Indian depended entirely on dodging, with the help of the saplings. At length Joe, thinking he had a pretty fair chance, made a sideblow with such force, that missing the dodging Indian, the gun, nowreduced to a naked barrel, was drawn quite out of his hands, andflew entirely out of reach. The Indian now gave another exultingUgh and sprang at him with all the savage fury he was master of them had a weapon in his hands, and the Indian seeingLogston bleeding freely, thougl^t he could throw him down and dis-patch him. In this he was mistaken. They seized each other anda desperate scuffle ensued. Joe could throw him down, but could. 184 BIG JOE LOGSTONS DESPERATE ENCOUNTER. not hold him there. The Indian being naked, with his hide oiled,had greatly the advantage in a ground scuffle, and would still slipout of Joes grasp and rise. After throwing him five or six times, Joe found, that between lossof blood and violent exertions, his wind was leaving him, and thathe must change the mode of warfare or lose his scalp, which he wasnot yet willing to spare. He threw the Indian again, and withoutattempting to hold him, jumped from him, and as he rose, aimed afist blow at his head which caused him to fall back, and as he wouldrise, Joe gave him several blows in succession, the Indian risingslower each time. He at last succeeded in giving him a pretty fairblow in the burr of the ear, with all his force, and he fell, as Joethought, pretty near dead. Joe jumped on h
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