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Show 198 TALES OF THE COLORADO PIONEERS. swallow that or fight.' He made at me with a carving knife and just cut my head clean off." "Clean off?" "Yes, ma'm." " I suppose there was enough of you left for an inquest ? " "Well, I should say so; I went in quest of him, and I just chawed him up." "Then I suppose the jury sat on you?" " No, ma'm; I have never been 'set down' on yet." There was no more time for talking, for we were drawing near to a "fire in the mountains," an experience I had been pining for. THROUGH THE FIRE. The sight was grand; the long red tongues of fire were twining and lapping around the lofty pines up to the very top, and flying off in flags and sheets above. |