alfway around the Polar Star when

again start to kill all white men they can find and to burn their houses. We should travel a good stretch before

ved much alone in a wild country, was

stretch by starlight. Perhaps we can thus av

out where we have gone, and try to overtake us. He will not hesitate

to be shaken out

sun rises the Sioux will again be scouring the c

ready, Tatanka and the trapp

there, when I was a boy, but it is now a white man's town, and I do not think that Little Crow's warriors will

ry a great distance. Let us put buckshot into the guns of the boys. If we are attacked,

e people were prepared like we are, the warrio

nce. They passed a slough, where the tall rushes and grasses and the pools of open water were covered with a gray patchy blanket of fog, out of which rang the loud quacking calls of wild ducks and the low, retiring notes of hu

Tim, "there's the little

replied Bill, "only he is so little

getting small and the eastern sky will soon be gra

s in their blankets, and let the wil

ed in their horses and approached the crest of every rise with the utmost caution. After traveling an hour or more, in this way, Barker and

eakfast," Barke

a hollow where we can'

a hollow," he replied, "Dakotahs see u

ven started a fire and on several green s

ians see the f

e that Tatanka breaks from the trees only the

of meat, which the Indian was laying down on some oak leaves, but Tatanka struck him a sharp blow with

German to Meetcha," Barker laughed. "He learne

ith a smile. "He is a little thief. Tim should let

yed a hearty breakfast

his rate, we shall live on the smell of hambo

s without washing them, although to the delight of both men a

and smoked in silence, while Barker and the boys

they could not tell what they were. The boys thought they saw Indians on horseback, but as B

ite men. We mus

from the Indians on a

except by a lucky accident. If an

n half a mile of the knoll,

aid, "now we

irie directly toward the white men, who tried to whip

, and the four riders threw themselves

dians turned and then dispersed themselves around the te

eral women and children, and the

as the party kept to the open prairie, the Si

the owner of the team stayed with friends, while the four horsemen

own and the people were much excited, although no

re were no telegraph lines in those days west and southwest of St. Paul, but the news of th

d by-paths with which Barker was well acquainted. Near the old inn which stood just west of the Bloomington bridge ac

at St. Paul, and he will most likely strike the road between this place and St. Paul. If we travel on this road in the daytime, we shall meet so many people

ed St. Paul. Old Joe, the hostler, at one of the outlying taverns, was not

erful glad to see you. Only last night I was saying to the boys, 'Th

Meetcha was locked up in an empty grain-box

ash bones, until dayli

gone to bed, "here is a chance for you to show that you are my friend. Don't tell anybody that we are he

replied the hostler.

he news of the Indian wa

e appointed Henry H. Sibley of Mendota, to assume command of a force of men to march

na some time Friday evening. The boat could take but very few passengers, but through hi

s wandered down the bend of the river, where the great stream sweeps southward in a magnifi

passive face of Tatanka lit

he Winnebagoes. I wish to see once more the long shining Lake Pepin, and its bold high rocks. There I lived when I was a little boy, befor

ough a net, Tamahe, the pickerel, that has sharp teeth and is the wolf among fish, and the large black paddle

go with you and fight with you if the b

nd be happy as I was when I listened to th

uds hang over all my people. The soldiers will drive them away from the Minn

I will join my people far west, and my friends will bu