WITH THE BLUECOATS ON THE BORDER. 



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AN ATTACK ON AN INDIAN VILLAGE. 



every- day work. Hay and wood for the coming long winter 

 are being cut and brought in, quarters are repaired ; sometimes 

 we drive out for a shot at the prairie-chickens, or visit the 

 Agency, watching the distribution of rations to the Indians, or 

 going about with the Agent or his assistants, studying the meth- 

 ods by which the savage is being schooled in the way of life of 



