. Old Ironsides, the hero of Tripoli and 1812, and other tales and adventures on sea and land . at the base of the ridge, as if to decideupon some new form of attack. The Wallaces, under the belief that a large warparty were in the vicinity, hurried the mother andson from their home, and, without pausing togather any of their valuables, rode off with allhaste to the southeast, in the direction of FortLaramie. They had not gone far, however, whenthe thought that tliev were deserting the Rossmores O v caused them to stop, with the intention of hurry-ing to their help, if it was not too late. The
. Old Ironsides, the hero of Tripoli and 1812, and other tales and adventures on sea and land . at the base of the ridge, as if to decideupon some new form of attack. The Wallaces, under the belief that a large warparty were in the vicinity, hurried the mother andson from their home, and, without pausing togather any of their valuables, rode off with allhaste to the southeast, in the direction of FortLaramie. They had not gone far, however, whenthe thought that tliev were deserting the Rossmores O v caused them to stop, with the intention of hurry-ing to their help, if it was not too late. They had gone onlv a little way. when Mrs. ty O *J v f Rossmore was descried hurrying toward them. Asshe came up, she said she had heard the sound offiring from the direction of their home, and wasso terrified that she did not dare await the returnof her husband. While she was talking, the re-ports of the rifles were heard, as the three hostilesfired upon the settler returning from his every one was convinced that Rossmore »/ */ had fallen, and one of the Wallaces set out to in-. 49 50 OLD IRONSIDES. vestigate. He was too late to learn anything, butcame back with the belief that his neighbor hadbeen slain. While they were waiting and unde-cided what to do, he rejoined them in the mannerdescribed. It was ascertained afterwards that fullv a score t> of hostiles started out on this raid. A little whilebefore reaching the home of the Wallaces, they O «/ divided, the larger party riding northward to at-tack other exposed settlers. When the smaller com-pany were assailed with such vehemence by thebrothers, they believed there had been a combina-tion of white settlers, and these were the skurried to cover, and it was while they weremaking their way northward to reunite with theirfriends, that the Wallaces hastily fled without theiraction being noticed by their enemies. The latter did not e;o far when thev halted, and C3 t> three of them rode back to reco
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