"Ever sence I was a little chap settin' on my granddaddy's knees by the hearthbig hickory fire a-roarin' up the chimbly, wind a-goin' 'whooh!' overhead, an' me with my eyes like saucers a-listenin' to his tales of the silver mine that the Injuns hadever sence that time I've hunted that thar mine."

They have been driven into the mountains by a band of Injuns.

"Jest keep clear o' the Injuns an' the grog bottle, an' ye've a glor'ous life before ye." At this point the conversation was interrupted by the order being given to move on, which was obeyed in silence, and the cavalcade, descending the valley, entered one of the gorges in the mountains.

" "I have travelled more than a thousand miles through prairie and forest, among game an' among Injuns, an' the pup never betrayed me yet," said Dick, with suppressed vehemence.

I've lived on raw liver an' marrow-bones for two or three days at a time, when we wos chased by the Camanchee Injuns an' didn't dare to make a fire; an' it's ra'al good, it is.

"'They'll taste as good for all that,' says I; for somehow I'd taken't in me head that he'd heard o' the way the Injuns make soup o' the grasshoppers, an' wos wantin' to try his hand at a new dish!

"What has happened, eh?" "Injuns comin', monsieur; look dere," answered a trapper, pointing down the valley.

"Injuns!" ejaculated Dick, reining up, and vaulting out of the saddle.

"They like their own better, I s'pose," answered Joe; "most all the western Injuns do.

There's Injuns ahead!"

"Blessed are the poor"I tell yer, some day I'll be clearin' out, Leavin' all this dressin' nonsense, 'cause I'm goin' ter be a scout, Same as "Deadwood Dick," a-killin' all the Injuns on the plains: He do'n't comb his hair, you bet yer; no, nor wash, unless it rains.

All I get a whack at now is Injuns, but I'm gradually beginnin' to close in on the white teeth.

" "I thought you said you was practisin' on Injuns.

" "Injuns is human.

D'you know it's foot-racin' time with the Injuns?" "What?" "Sure.

The Injuns was in breech-cloths and moccasins, and, of course, they created no comment; but the sight of a half-nekked white man was something new to these people, and the first flash they got at Mike's fancy togs told 'em they'd once more fell a victim to the white man's wiles.

All them Injuns done, was to come and look at Mike and feel of his legs and argue with one another.

" "You mean you're goin' to turn out with the Injuns?"

"All Injuns look alikeexcept one.

And it impressed the other Injuns, too; they crowded up and studied it.

With that them Injuns begun to speak.

These are men who have had the luck to get in and out without ever having been seen by the Injuns; the large parties have never succeeded.

It aint as I should grudge anyone else a share in the mine, but the more there are the more chance of the Injuns finding us.

Her droll conceits in "Mary and Her Lamb," the "Ten Little Injuns," and other juvenile tales were complimented by Boutet de Monvel, who was so much interested in her work that he gave her valuable criticism and advice without solicitation.

Where are the Injuns?"