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CHAPTER XV
A Warm Reception-"Fire and Fall Back"-Hot Work-A
Natural Coward-Four at a Shot-Lassoing Dead Indians.
t .N an instant we had roused up the boys, and were
ready for them. They evidently expected to take
us by surprise, for they never checked their horses
until they had charged up within a few feet of the
chaparral in which we were posted, and began to pour
in their "dogwood switches" as thick as hail. But we
returned the compliment so effectually with our rifles
and six-shooters, that they soon fell back, taking off
with them four of their warriors that had been
"emptied" from their saddles. They wounded one of
our men named Fry, but not badly, and killed a packmule.
The Indians went off out of sight behind a hill, and
most of the boys supposed that they had left for good,
but I told them they were mistaken, and that we
should have a lively time of it yet; that the Indians
had only gone off to dismount, and would come back
again soon and give us another "turn." And so it
turned out, for we had scarcely got our guns and pistols
loaded again when they rose up all around the little
thicket in which we were, yelling and screeching as
if they thought we were a set of "green-horns" that
could be frightened by a noise.
But I saw plainly they were in earnest this time, and
told Ben Wade to take three of the boys and keep
them off from the far side of the thicket, while I kept
them at bay with the rest from the side next the coach.
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Duval, John C. The adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, the Texas ranger and hunter, book, 1870; [Macon, Ga.]. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth5831/m1/91/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .