Adventures of Dick Onslow Among the Red Indians (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Adventures of Dick Onslow in the Far West To the edge of the wood, and for a moment lost sight of the rest of the party. Then, in another instant, I saw them again surrounded by Indian warriors, with plumes and feathers, uplifted hatch cts, and red paint, looking very terrible. The women were standing up in the waggon with axes in their hands defending themselves bravely. A savage had seized one of the children and was drag ging it off, when Mrs. Ragget struck with all her might at the Red Skin's arm, and cut it clean through, the savage drew back howling with pain and rage. Old Laban in the mean time, with his a brother and two others, kept in front, firing away as fast as they could load while they ran on: for they saw if once the Red Skins could get hold of the horses' heads, they would be completely in their power. All this time several of the things were tumbling out of the waggon, but we could not stop to pick them up. Why the rest of the party, who were ahead, did not come back to our assistance, I could not tell. I thought that they also were prob ably attacked. We four ran on for some way, keeping the Indians at a respectable distance, for they are cowardly rascals - notwithstanding all the praise bestowed on them - if courageously 0p posed. I was loading my ri¿e, and then taking aim at four mounted Indians who appeared on the right with ri¿es in their hands. They fired, but missed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.