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and helped them to hurry along to their camp. 

 We did not sleep much that night, and 

 did not leave camp at all the next day, know- 

 ing that we wonld have some kind of settle- 

 ment to make with them, and about lo o'clock 

 in the morning we noticed a large squad of 

 them coming toward us. The reader must not 

 forget that the Indian is Uncle Sam's pet, and 

 we did not dare do anything unless we were 

 attacked, but had gotten everything in read- 

 iness by the time they came up. The chief^ 



who spoke fair English, said: ''You d — d 



killed four of my men out there," 



pointing to where four dead Ogallahs lay. 



One of our men, Hank Miller, said "Paw- 

 nees," meaning that it was the Pawnees that 

 had killed them, but the old chief roared out 

 ''Pawnees, no Pawnees," and drawing his 

 finger around his head to indicate that had it 

 been the Pawnees that killed his men, they 

 would have scalped them, which, of course, 

 we did not do, expressed his utter disbelief 

 by saying '^Poo, poo, poo, no Pawnee." 



They sat on their horses and bandied words 



