THE WOLF HUNTERS 



into the camp; for I s'pose they seemed so friendly 

 that the white men thought it wouldn't look neigh- 

 borly to show any suspicion of such good Injuns. 



"Satanta told Dave, bragging how slick he 

 worked it, that when he got these wolf hunters in 

 a proper frame of mind an' saw that the sign was 

 right, he give the word, an' they turned loose and 

 killed the two men before they had time to realize 

 the trap they'd got into. 



"Then, after plundering the camp, a warrior 

 called Lame Deer took six others an' started off 

 to follow up an' take in the man they'd seen going 

 away, for fear that he might somehow get wind 

 of the affair before coming back to camp and get 

 away. 



"They overtook him, so Satanta told Dave, 

 just after the man had killed a buffalo, skinned 

 part of the hide back, an', as the Injuns supposed, 

 was about to cut out some o' the hump steak; an', 

 just as we made it out by the signs, the man, see- 

 ing the desperate fix he was in, had cut his horse's 

 throat to make a breastwork of his carcass on one 

 side, an', with the buffalo on the other, had got 

 down between 'em an' give the Injuns a rattlin' 

 good fight, killin' one Kiowa, badly woundin' an- 

 other, an' killin' the two ponies you found the 

 bones of. 



"But they got him at last at least he killed 

 himself when he was down to his last cartridge 

 an' then they piled onto him an' stripped every 



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