I wos like you once.

Now, lads, what think ye we should do ?" "You know best, Joe." "Oui, nodoubtedly.' "Then wot I advise is that we gallop to the broken sand hillocks ye see yonder, get behind them, an' take a peep at the Redskins.

If they are Pawnees, we'll go up to them at once; if not, we'll hold a council o' war on the spot." Having arranged this, they mounted and hastened towards the hillocks in question, which they reached after ten minutes' gallop at full stretch.

The sandy mounds afforded them concealment, and enabled them to watch the proceedings of the savages in the plain below.

The scene was the most curious and exciting that can be conceived.