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I know som friendly Shoshones who'll fix us up with a new outfit We i! trap around there this fall, then earfy next spring we can return to Benton, hopefully with enough hides and furs to buy you passage back to the states. Want us to smoke the tongues, too? George asked the old man. They're worth 15 cents a pound in Benton." "Yea, and if you keep being so helpful. maybe we'll leave your traps be- hind." Thank you kindly." answered with a smile, as he resumed his labors on one of the hides. Ger-org- e Chapter 22 When it was too dark to work any longer, the old man, gun in hand, followed us back to the fire where James - ti ff r Ia i m trt 1. TftfV fc -- l. V I k . g rta.i y . 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"When we got to the end of the canyon and the horses couldn't go any further, we tied them up in an aspen grove and began firing back at the Indians. Big Ike was a good fighter, fearless and strong. A good shot, too: he wounded a couple of them bucks." When it looked like they was about to close in on us. I told Ike to keep firing while James and me snuck out the back, climbed up on the cliffs, and started a crossfire. I told him that if he could hold'm off 'til we got up on top, we'd be able to pick'm off like flies and drive'm off. The old man and James began laughing again. I didn't see anything very funny. Neither did George. When we got to the top of the cliff, the old man continued, barely .it !. 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