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Show Klfaaaaaf SAVED HIS SCALf. ' IHaaaaaV - fltl'aH wif o. Aek. m.u'1 rj Tun BW Heprr lleiillaf flmnnil. I nUlBBI Oo hot rummer day after climbing "HiU th oil "Ooremmeut" roaJ, telileli 'ffjfaaaiaaaa! 1ndflntuiil out ot tlio Rulcliet, tut fljB alwajt up from Copper llatln.injcorn- uJlfHB innlon, CVilaiicl Ulj-low. and rorrclf fiHIaaaaaaH readied the cool r ring which Labile UfjH from tli rocki Jart More the divide b (HB reached train which Ilia rood com- ' H inrticrt la detcend tu I'rcecott, which ' JLH U eight or nlM mile nwnjr. Tli IHK mountain! litre ar covered tilth loll ilH pint treat which eprln,r (ruin th IHH (.-round covered with. luwieiuii gnuilt SK LuwIJera. IH ItMtlnjt ounclrci at tho iprlng tin K colonel pointed to trail leading up IflHl tliekIof thoppoalt mountain uil gHl Mill "A good raanjr inn tine I SB think It tu In lSti, and when I felt H luueli j-oanger tliui now I cam very jH near belts taken In lie Uia Indiana up HaaaaaaH '' trail lcra It ace over the lH divide. HI teU ton how It waa, leHl "I had been down to Tmcott (or n IH month or two, hating a good tlmo with IHP Uia boil until I luul become broke and jflHIJ tired o( o much hllarltjr, and. I inado IHQI up mjr mind I would ttrlae out (or lUHS camp, which at that time waa at tho jbH mtiutli o( Iha Oram! Wiuli, which lendt PH! down Into tho Ilauntain, (our or dta SB luilca btlotr Copper llaaln. lH "I lUtrted nut (rem rmcolt, and tflK aa coining up tht trail on the other fHB 'Ida of that rlJj oter there, all the 'rBSB time keeping 1117 cyti open (or Illdlan HBVa (or In thow dare n iraun waa alwn; BVBT ou Um lookout (or Indlanaand alwnja HBVJt liad till gun read (or lntant uw. 'jHB "At I rams up Ilia hill I nntlcej a t9BVS moteuietit o( tho Iwutha In the top of a tall pinion phuitrco which stood on top 'nKBf t tho ridge. Not Wing able from Mjr IHB tiotltlon to dlacover what road tht iBBBK commotion lu th pine trco top, I euro- HBVf ("11 made Df way up tho hill until I jIHBaK ha-lagoodtlewof tlietrec, n-vl what fSMBf do jrwi think I aawl Well, an Indian iDj luul ahlnnoil up tlM plno true, and, with mVBR a long light lib of n aagliuara, waa iHBji knocklngolIUiaptxioroiitawlileh hold HBHH Ui awect pinion plno null. Hb "I 'tit n'T comfortable whan I aaw jflH tha Indian up liie trco, (or 1 Imagined JHH tha rraultU ho had caught too up th HUSK tree, I inad up njr mind tliat he waa Hn uijr Indian, (or thApachca hail utad IHttBt thln partlcularlj hot for ros on inure mBBJ than ou ocrfuioo. Wltliout an ro- HBVK gardu to whether bwoul(! (all on n nBff ott epot or not, 1 took good aim and JHjHj then didn't alioot" mBB "So wliatwuthtnatterriaikiL jnHl "I'll tell jrou whj," continued the jlMnJ colonel "Jlnarlag a alight nohu, I iJIB loukail dowu tho trail on tho other aldo IBSB1 of tlio 1UII, anl there, not more Uian HK 1M tarda awar, were coming aitcn or BBhJi alght Indiana In alngl Ulo, aiul all were U anutd. They had not wen me. I and- B oVuIr conclujwl I hadn't lot anjr In- BBBV dlan lUt dajr, and 1 la (tat down In BTBB tli bnuli whlln tlicjp vued along th BlBBj trail In full view ot inj hiding placo H anJ dlnapticarrJ oter th hllL BBaBj "At 1 didn't car to call a land ot RH tho red fiend upon nto br tliootlng, X H luterawM away from them without BBBB letting th Indian up the tree know BBBB how near h had teen to Ulng taj BnBW nieat, nor how near rujr acalp lud Un BH! to han.-lng to th bolt ot un ot Ua BaBBj trlb." Arlwna llepubllcan. |
