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, run off their horses, too. Afterward we will 
: divide the horses up in equal shares.” 
Just as soon as it was plain daylight they could 
see horses everywhere. The Comanche had had 
herders out, who had come in at daylight, think¬ 
ing that everything was perfectly safe. The 
Cheyenne could see that the Comanche horses 
' were pretty well bunched up together as they 
had been left by the herders. Many of the 
Comanche had their finest horses picketed in 
the camp. 
When it had grown light enough, Little Wolf 
said: “Let us go; do not make too much noise.” 
They rushed in, and after they had got around 
the horses they began to whoop and yell, and 
then to shoot, and started all the loose Comanche 
horses to running. They swept them all off. 
When the Comanches saw the horses begin to 
run they also commenced to shoot at those who 
were driving them and to shout directions to 
Besides that, every now and then a frightened 
loose horse that had pulled up his pin, but had 
run off in some other direction, would come up 
from behind and join the herd. 
As the daylight grew stronger and the men 
driving the horses had more time to 1 look at 
them, they began to recognize in the herd that 
they were taking off some Cheyenne horses, 
those that the Comanche had taken from the 
Cheyenne village only a short time before. 
A Cheyenne who was behind rode up to Yel¬ 
low Wolf and said, “They are getting close. 
They are pretty near overtaking us.” 
Yellow Wolf replied, “Now, all who have guns 
must turn back and charge on them; that is the 
only hope we have of getting away from them. 
We must fight them.” 
When Yellow Wolf gave the word, all the 
Cheyenne who had guns turned about and 
charged back among the Comanches. Yellow 
back to the owners, but the Comanche horses 
we will divide.” They did so. 
Little Wolf, who was the father of Big Jake 
—Man above (He-am-hai-tan')—and who died 
about twenty years ago, aged ninety years, said 
that he tied one of the Comanche scalps on the 
ramrod of his Hudson Bay gun, while Yellow 
Wolf got a pole and tied another scalp on that, 
and when they charged down into the village. 
Little Wolf shot his gun off in the air and they 
both rode about waving the scalps. 
When they drove the herd into the camp, and 
the Cheyennes, who had lost their horses, recog¬ 
nized the re-captured ones, there was great re¬ 
joicing by the men, women and children whose 
property had been recovered. The men who had 
re-captured these horses said afterward that 
their necks were sore from being hugged by the 
people whose property they had brought back. 
When the Comanche left them the Cheyenne 
PRAIRIES OF LONG ISLAND-THE HEMPSTEAD PLAINS. 
Meadow Brook Club in middle distance. 
each other. There was one especially fine horse 
picketed right in the camp, and Walking Coyote 
rode right down into the camp, jumped off his 
horse, cut the rope which held the Comanche 
horse, mounted again and started off with his 
fine horse. Walking Coyote got back to his 
party and handed the rope of the horse he had 
cut loose to Yellow Wolf, his father. All the 
i Comanche began to jump on their horses and 
to ride after the Cheyenne. 
The Cheyenne rushed the horses off, but 
Walking Coyote and the other men stayed be¬ 
hind, and commenced to fight the Comanche to 
! try to hold them back. 
Of the Comanche, who had their good horses 
tied in camp, there were not very many, accord¬ 
ing to Little Wolf; perhaps not more than 
twenty-five or thirty. Nevertheless, these fol¬ 
lowed fast. Many of the tied horses in the 
camp, frightened by the charge and the shoot¬ 
ing, broke their ropes or pulled up their pins 
I and followed the herd. The Cheyenne, who 
| were driving them and who were close behind 
the horses, said that they had to keep dodging 
to avoid the flying picket pins at the end of the 
ropes pulled up by the Comanche war horses. 
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Wolf rode up close to a Comanche and poked 
his gun against his body and fired, and broke 
the Comanche’s back, and he dropped from his 
horse. Walking Coyote counted coup on him. 
Another man shot a Comanche off his horse, 
and the Comanche were so surprised and fright¬ 
ened at the suddenness of the attack that they 
all whirled about and began to run. That ended 
the. pursuit. The Comanche followed them no 
further and they got away with all the horses. 
They counted coup on and scalped the Comanches 
that they had killed. 
Yellow Wolf then said, “We have here some 
Cheyenne horses and these we will have to give 
I N a region so densely populated and n easily 
accessible to travelers as the western third 
of Long Island, it would seem alreost im¬ 
possible at this late day to make a geographical 
party had almost overtaken the young men who 
were driving the captured wild horses, and they 
signalled to them to stop and wait for them, 
and it was about this time that they began to 
recognize the great number of Cheyenne horses 
in the bunch which they had taken from the 
Comanche. 
After peace had been made with the Comanche 
in 1840, Bull Hump said that the pursuing 
Comanche, when they saw the herd of wild horses 
ahead, supposed that they were approaching a 
large Cheyenne camp, and that this w*as the chief 
reason that they stopped the pursuit. 
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discovery worth mentioning; and yet probably 
not one person in a thousand (or even one 
scientist in a thousand) in the United States 
knows that there are something like -fifty square 
TKe Prairies of Long Islarvd 
By ROLAND M. HARPER 
