Buck said his father and brothers ought to waited for their relations--the Shepherdsons was too strong for them.

I asked him what was become of young Harney and Miss Sophia.

He said they'd got across the river and was safe.

I was glad of that; but the way Buck did take on because he didn't manage to kill Harney that day he shot at him--I hain't ever heard anything like it.
All of a sudden, bang! bang! bang! goes three or four guns--the men had slipped around through the woods and come in from behind without their horses! The boys jumped for the river--both of them hurt--and as they swum down the current the men run along the bank shooting at them and singing out, "Kill them, kill them!" It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree.

I ain't a-going to tell ALL that happened--it would make me sick again if I was to do that.