Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . e felt conscious, would render his situation, to say the least, not suffering most acutely in body and mind for a time, the prisoner (who was again such by accident) found his miseries allevi-ated when the In-dians began to eat,as they then letthe fire burn down,and did not againreplenish it. Afterthey had dispatch-ed their breakfastof mutton, theprisoner heard the DRAWING A BEE LINE FOR FORT PLAIN. ICadCr CaUtlOU the
Thrilling adventures among the early settlers, embracing desperate encounters with Indians, Tories, and refugees; daring exploits of Texan rangers and others .. . e felt conscious, would render his situation, to say the least, not suffering most acutely in body and mind for a time, the prisoner (who was again such by accident) found his miseries allevi-ated when the In-dians began to eat,as they then letthe fire burn down,and did not againreplenish it. Afterthey had dispatch-ed their breakfastof mutton, theprisoner heard the DRAWING A BEE LINE FOR FORT PLAIN. ICadCr CaUtlOU the one left to watch in that vicinity, to be wary, and soon heard theretiring footsteps of the rest of the party. Often during the morn-ing, the watchman was seated or standing over him. Not having heard the Indian for some time, and believing thehour of his espionage past, he cautiously crept out of the log; andfinding himself alone, being prepared by fasting and steaming for agood race, he drew a bee-line for Fort Plain, which he reached insafety, beleiving, as he afterward stated, that all the Indians in thestate could not have overtaken him in his THE TRAVELEK AND THE ARKANSAS years ago, when horse thieves, negro stealers, est omne genus, were much more common in the Arkansas country 326 THE TRAVELER AND THE ARKANSAS BULLY. than they are to-day, a party of six or eight borderers were one coolevening in November, collected around the bar-room fire of theJetferson House, in a place well known, but which it suits ourpurpose not to name. They were rather a rough-looking set offellows take them all iri all; and at the moment we introduce them,were attentively listening to the wonderful exploits of one Kelser,
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