ScoutingCaptured by IndiansA Strategic EscapeA Hot PursuitThe Indians led into an AmbushOld Satanta's Tricks and ThreatsExcitement at Fort LarnedHerders and Wood-Choppers Killed by the IndiansA Perilous RideI get into the wrong PewSafe, arrival at Fort HaysInterview with General SheridanMy ride to Fort DodgeI return to Fort LarnedMy Mule gets away from meA long WalkThe Mule Passes In his Chips.

On their way thither, they surprised and killed a party of wood-choppers down on the Pawnee Fork, as well as some herders who were guarding beef cattle; some seven or eight men in all, were killed, and it was evident that the Indians meant business.

Or was it only a congregation of wearied wood-choppers, or of proprietors come to inspect their lots, that we thought of?

The axes of the wood-choppers were next heard, coming out of the forest, cutting fuel for the approaching winter; and a half-finished ditch had its workmen also, who were soon busy casting up the soil, and fashioning their trench.

It would carry him also quite beyond the clearing of the wood-choppers, and be effectually turning the whole of the enemy's position.

Joyce, who was a man of method, and was accustomed to telling off troops, counted no less than forty-nine of these idlers, most of whom were lounging near the log entrenchment, though a few were sauntering about the clearing, conversing with the wood-choppers, or making their observations listlessly, and seemingly without any precise object in view.

From information derived from a brother of these boys, who was caught in Washington County, Miss., it appears they intended to apply for employment as wood-choppers in the upper part of this State, until they could raise money enough to dress fine, then set off for the State of Illinois.

Two fugitive tie-choppers from the woods turned back to find the colonel's body.

Mrs. Ruggles intercepted the returning tie-choppers in the lane.

It was fine to see the speed and sinewy ease with which the choppers cleared an open space for the tents.

Wood choppers of Nass.

Wood choppers of Nass.

Wood choppers of Nass.

Wood choppers of Nass.

And as there were knives and meat choppers about, Clarence very generously resolved to humour him and so avoid anything tragic.

Above the throng of wood-choppers, game-hunters, and Indian fighters loom the sinewy figures of Daniel Boon and George Rogers Clark.

The only two implements the men invariably carried were the axe and rifle, for they were almost equally proud of their skill as warriors, hunters, and wood-choppers.

The wood-choppers, game hunters, and Indian fighters, who dressed and lived alike, were the typical pioneers.

" Yet Colden, Wilton and the others were compelled to argue with the men, especially with the boat builders and wood choppers.

But since I left those shores the wood-choppers have still further laid them waste, and now for many a year there will be no more rambling through the aisles of the wood, with occasional vistas through which you see the water.

Though the wood-choppers have laid bare first this shore and then that, and the Irish have built their sties by it, and the railroad has infringed on its border, and the ice-men have skimmed it once, it is itself unchanged, the same water which my youthful eyes fell on; all the change is in me.

The white wooden farm-houses were banked round two feet deep with dried leaves or earth, and the choppers went out to get ready next year's stores of wood.

The profit and loss philosophy of Utilitarians and Materialists finds favor among logic-choppers with half a soul.

I carried straightway to the village the topmost spire, and showed it to stranger jurymen who walked the streets,for it was court-week,and to farmers and lumber-dealers and wood-choppers and hunters, and not one had ever seen the like before, but they wondered as at a star dropped down.

After two years I shouldered my axe and went to the river-land with the choppers every winter morning.