Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . dsend and the womenloaded the rifles and broughtthem out, and firing through thestockade, killed three or four,and, as luck would have it, theAcadian was one of the when the Spaniards, who arejust like hounds, and only comeon if led and encouraged, saw•LOADING THE RIFLES. tliclr Icadcr had fallen, they sprang off the mound, with a Carajo! MalditosV and ran awayas if a shell had burst among them. I couldnt say how long the f
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . dsend and the womenloaded the rifles and broughtthem out, and firing through thestockade, killed three or four,and, as luck would have it, theAcadian was one of the when the Spaniards, who arejust like hounds, and only comeon if led and encouraged, saw•LOADING THE RIFLES. tliclr Icadcr had fallen, they sprang off the mound, with a Carajo! MalditosV and ran awayas if a shell had burst among them. I couldnt say how long the fight lasted; it seemed short, we wereso busy, and yet long, deadly long. It is no joke to have to defendones life, and the lives of those one loves best, against fourscoreblood-thirsty Spaniards, and that with only half a dozen rifles forarms, and a few palisades for shelter. When it was over we wereso dog-tired that we fell down where we were, like over-driven oxen,and without minding the blood which lay like water on the Spaniards and two Acadians lay dead within the ourselves were all wounded and hacked about, some with knife-. poes desperate encounter with big foot. 33 stabs and sabre-cuts, others with musket-shots ; ugly wounds enough,some of them, but none mortal. If the Spaniards had returnedto the attack, they would have made short work of us; for as soonas we left off fighting, and our blood cooled, we became stiff andhelpless. But now came the women with rags and bandages, andwashed our wounds and bound them up, and we dragged ourselvesinto the block-house and lay down upon our mattresses of dry Godsend loaded the rifles and a dozen Spanish muskets thatwere lying about, to be in readiness for another attack, and thewomen kept watch while we slept. But the Spaniards had hadenough, and we saw no niore of them. Only the next morning,when Jonas went down the ladder to reconnoiter, he found thirtydead and dying, and a few wounded, who
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