SATANTA'S STORY 



An' then I told him all I knew about the matter, 

 an' what the signs seemed to show, an' read to him 

 the writing on the shoulder-blade, for Dave can 

 neither read nor write. He studied awhile an' 

 then said: 'Yes mus' be same lot. I know 

 'bout yother two. See 'em bones where Injuns 

 kill 'em. No see this one bones, but Satanta tell 

 me 'bout it one day. Mus' be same one/ 



"The story of the affair," continued Tom, "as I 

 gathered it from Dave, is about thisaway: Three 

 wolf hunters with a wagon an' team had estab- 

 lished their camp on Walnut Creek, an' from what 

 Dave says the remains of that camp an' the bones 

 of two of the men must be down the creek from 

 here about five miles, on the same side we are on. 



"These wolf hunters had just fairly got estab- 

 lished when Satanta an' about twenty of his men 

 come along, one day, just in time to see this fel- 

 low, whose bones you found, a-starting off on the 

 prairie to kill a buffalo an' poison it for wolves. 

 The Injuns hadn't been seen by the white men, 

 an' after this one was gone Satanta kept his men 

 out of sight of the wolf hunters, all except one 

 besides himself, an' him an' this one rode out in 

 sight of the white men an' made signs of friend- 

 ship, an' the wolf hunters let 'em come into their 

 camp. After begging some grub from the white 

 men the two Injuns made themselves very agree- 

 able an' friendly, an' by and by a few more of 

 the Kiowas dropped along an' was allowed to come 



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