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yards to a ravine, or washout, to stay all night. 

 This was a good position and afforded us a 

 fair opportunity to repel any attack they should 

 make. We hurried our suppsr all we could 

 and as soon as possible put the fire out, so that 

 it would not betray our position, and put our- 

 selves in as good condition for defense as we 

 could, when we sat down to watch and wait. 

 Shortly after dark our dog began to bark and 

 run savagely down the w^ashout and then 

 back, keeping up an incessant growling and 

 barking, and we knew that the reds were 

 prying around our camp with no good intent. 

 Soon he grew more furious, and, after dashing 

 about fifty yards down the ravine, he would 

 come back with his tail between his legs as if 

 frightened. This is the way a dog acts when 

 Indians are aboi't, and we expected to be 

 attacked all the time, and kept ourselves in 

 readiness to go to work in a second's notice. 

 It was so dark and smoky that 1 never got to 

 see them once, and after about two hours 

 they went away, the dog became quiet, and 

 Howard and myself took turn about sleeping 



