. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . to-morrow we will makediligent search. Then sharpen your scalping knives and prepare for the war-path, as our Pawnee foes are camped a days ride to the southeast killing ourgame. Their village is strongly guarded, but we will use cunning to outwitthem. We will drive a herd of buffalo out on the valley below their village,and while their young men are chasing our game we will crawl up through thegrass and scalp and kill their old men and squaws. So, sor, afther hearin this spache by the ould hayth
. Butcher's pioneer history of Custer County : and short sketches of early days in Nebraska . to-morrow we will makediligent search. Then sharpen your scalping knives and prepare for the war-path, as our Pawnee foes are camped a days ride to the southeast killing ourgame. Their village is strongly guarded, but we will use cunning to outwitthem. We will drive a herd of buffalo out on the valley below their village,and while their young men are chasing our game we will crawl up through thegrass and scalp and kill their old men and squaws. So, sor, afther hearin this spache by the ould haythen I says to mesilf,sez I, Mike OKafferty, its high toime ye was sthrikin camp and makingthracks for home. So here Oi am. AND SHORT SKETCHES OF EARLY DAYS IN NEBRASKA. 143 jftu j©Iti ^Bfilers ^{nry. In writing- these reminiscences I hesitate, thinking that perhaps theymight as well remain unwritten, but upon reflection I have concluded that toremain silent would not be doing justice to posterity, to whom, perhaps, everycircumstance that occurred in the early settlement of Custer countv may be.
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