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110 “LavucHING Boy 4 and watching. So I signalled to the Americans. § and saw them take cover. I made myself as har f to see as I could. Suddenly I thought that I was | enjoying myself a great deal. : ‘They came around the corner; now I looke: right down on them, from behind a bush. Ons ; of them, looking around, looked straight at mv § bush. He was searching for people hiding. I thought that that bush was not nearly thick | enough. His eyes passed on, and for just a mo | ment I felt weak. ‘Then the Americans started shooting. So I § stood up and gave the war-cry and started. As] | was shouting, I thought, they will hear the Coyote howl and know he's a Wolf. There wasa | brave just below me in a buckskin shirt with bead- § work on it, and a hat with a silver hatband. I noticed all about him while I shot at him. I wanted to kill him; I wanted it to be known that had killed one. I saw my arrow in the air a long time; I saw it strike. He fell off his horse. Then | I saw that he was not dead, and I was glad. I do not know why. | ‘There were five of them down now, and the | others put up their hands, so the Americans took them prisoners. One had been killed over in the other end of the cafion. ‘We went back to Oljeto, and they paid us as |

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