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Show 286 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS the rest. Some of the boys wanted to kill him, but father said " no, we will not shed blood, unless it is necessary, " so they left him and went in pursuit of the Indians and stock till nearly night, when it was decided to give up the chase and return home, taking back what stock they had. On their return they came across the sick In-dian sitting up against a tree smoking a pipe. The men still wanted to kill him, but father wouldn't let them. Some time after that, Father and two other men were standing guard over some stock in the north fort of Mount Pleasant; they would fre-quently meet and report to each other during the night, and had got together at the north side of the fort, when they heard and saw the cattle getting up from their bed- ground and moving awav from xvhat they thought nriglit be Indians crawling among them. The cattle kept getting up nearer and nearer to where the three men stood, when father spoke to the others and said, " that they must be close by." After that they saw the cattle moving as if something among them was going away from them. When morning came nothing had been molested. In the beginning of the 70 ' s after peace had been restored, an Indian and his family came to our house and spent a day or two. He told father of the occurrence at the fort, explaining that he and four other Indians were there on that occasion and had their guns lying across a cow ready to shoot the three men, when they heard father speak and say, * ' They must be close by. ' ' He said he knew father's voice and would not let the others shoot as father |