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Indians!
ne morning Pa took his gun and
ed to go, 100
ent hunting. Jack
im to the stable,
Pa said. “You must stay here and take care of
Pa tied
said to Mary and Laura, ‘Don’t untie
tayed by the stable
with him, but he iserable
Jack’s head was
he suddenly stood up and growled. The hair on his neck
stood straight up and his eyes stared, red and angry.
Laura was afraid. Jack had never growled at her before.
‘Then she looked over her shoulder, where Jack was looking.
and she saw two
whe
behind the other coming clos
reddish-brow! i eyes were black and shining, There were
feathers on their heads.
1 Mary whispered. Laura suddenly felt cold. Her
Jack growled angi
1 closer and closer. Then Mary and
Jack's here,’ Lau
stay close to him.’
“But they're in the hous
Il over. She knew she
ins doing to Ma and Baby
ust
do something. What werk
Carrie? There was no sound from the house.
‘oh, what are they doing to Ma?’ Laura screamed, in a
whisper.
“Oh, 1 don't kno ispered,
m going to uw ra whispered loudly
not to do that," Mary answered.
‘know Indians would come, .
Jack,’ Mary was crying.
and Ma, there in the
gin to help Mat” she
‘ned and flew back to Ja
Mary whispered. She
her. They came
they entered the house without a so
‘The naked wi stood by th
something over the fire wh
one eye, she looked
First, she saw the moceasins on their feet, ‘Then their thin,
¢ way up. Around their waists
red-brown k
\d very fierce. These wild men
. where hair usually grows.
‘Their faces were very calm
had no hair
round their ea
dst ten
Istria
aand Mary threw their arms around him, both talking at the
same time,
-y wore.
fer, when Laura and Mary wi
. Laura sai
Laura dropped her head and whispered, “Yes.
“Alter 2” Pa said, in a more terrible
is angry voice. ‘you girls must
-y me. Do you hear?
ispered.
ick is untied, he’
Bad trouble. Do you
But they did not understand.Jou ean wer ana
String aroun yur
rack
-y where the Indians had camped
Mary looked around.
was a beautiful secret pl
are there other Indi
‘I don't know,
She hel
together
hands and Mary held th
-y looked at the Indi
other, and
camp. There were old
sre Indian horses had eaten the
ins had walked, and where
plies. They could see
where big and small mo
cooked and e:
Laura
Look
on the ground, She picked it up. It
ful blue bead, Laura si
jement,
d more red and blue
beads. All that afternoon they
1g down.
of beads, and so did Mary. Pa put them
they all went home
Supper
refully
when they arrived, and
Baby Carrie was ‘orry we're late
Pa, and
them to Ma, “But
“Oh, they're beau
1
She touched her beads w
shine. “These are mine,’ she
pockets and show:
I" hee said.
when Mary said, “Cart have mine.’
Soret
that you wear
sound our neck
jt Mary
hey didn’t say anything, Perhaps Mary felt
. When she looked at
look at her again.
Carrie laughed when
neck and
necklace.
and good inside, but Laura
Mary she wanted to
a bea
round Carrie's litt
looked so pretty on her.
and put it away.
Ider.’ Ma said.
for herself. But she
been a wonderful day. She
knew she was never
going to forget
the Indian
camp.