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78 CAPTAIN JEFF, OR
'The others built fires and got supper, but before they had time
to eat it the Indians, twenty or twenty-five in number, made a desperate
and reckless charge into and through the camp, firing guns.
pistols and arrows, knocking the fires and supper helter skelter, and
yelling like demons.
They stampeded all the horses, and drove them much faster than
the men could run, but the men ran and fired after them as long as
the sound of the horses' feet could be heard.
When they were completely exhausted, they stopped and sat down,
some cursing and swearing, and some laughing at the figure they
would cut walking forty miles carrying their saddles, etc.
When they all had had their say, Captain Jeff said: "This is
pretty tough on old Jeff's brag company, to go. on a scout and be
so badly outgeneraled by old Big Foot that we all have to walk
forty miles to camp carrying our saddles, but let me show you how
much worse it could have been. You see how all of us missed being
killed or wounded; think it over, and you will say that was almost if
not a miracle. See, we are all unhurt, and will if possible be more determined
to get even with our Big Foot friend (?), for this will enmourage
him to hunt for us to get some more of our good horses.
The State will pay for your horses and as for me, old Selum
will be back here before morning, for the Indian that cuts his side
lines and mounts him will be a dead or crippled Indian if there are
any trees near this place, for the horse will run away with hni
and throw him against a tree or my name is not Jeff. Boys, you
won't have to walk to camp; old Selum will carry me to camp
long before night tomorrow, and I will send back horses for Jyt
to ride on; old Jeff's boys are horse soldiers, not foot soldiers"
When this last talk was finished a distant rumbling like horWe '
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Maltby, William Jeff. Captain Jeff; or, frontier life in Texas with the Texas Rangers, book, 1906; Colorado, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33010/m1/78/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.