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that Spotted Tail fight, and if they had 
caught us touching their dead, it might 
have been unhealthy for us.” 
“Why, what would they do?” I 
asked, suddenly realising what many 
white men never do—that Indians are 
emotional creatures like ourselves. The 
brass rings became uncomfortably con- 
spicuous in my mind. 
* Well, I don’t suppose they would 
dare to kill us so close to the agency, 
but I don’t know ; a mad Injun’s a bad 
Injun.” 
Nevertheless, this opinion did not 
deter him from climbing a tree where 
three bodies lay side by side in a curi- 
ous fashion; but I had no more in- 
terest in ‘dead-trees, and _ fidgeted. 
Nimrod had wandered off some dis- 
tance and was watching a gopher hole- 
up for the night. The place in the fad- 
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