One evening General Carr summoned me to his tent, and said he wished to send some scouts with dispatches to Camp Supply, which were to be forwarded from there to Sheridan.

"The artillery and the infantry were in close ranks," he said, "and the warriors were on either flank, scouting in the forest, forming a fringe which kept off possible scouts of the English and Americans.

He brought with him the now celebrated Forsyth scouts, who were commanded by Lieutenant Pepoon, a regular army officer.

General Carr ordered Lieutenant Pepoon's scouts and Company M to the front.

There stands a scout.

Here I left the Pawnee scouts to keep watch, while I went back and informed General Carr that the Indians were in sight.

By the time we cleared the village, we met our returning scouts, who reported having seen the enemy in the village of Mori, and reported their strength as some one hundred men on foot, and about twenty horsemen.

Their women and children began to disappear about noon, and then the Indians tried to draw the scouts out by displaying a white flag for a truce.

CHAPTER IV The Second Day Begins We march to San GermanRemoval of the sick from the ambulancesAn approaching Spanish forceOur scouts and their leaderConcerning Señor FijardoVisible effects of imminent battleSomething about the town of San German.

Just in the front of their house I found an English bicycle scout, leaning on his wheel and trying to make himself understood in a one-sided monosyllabic dialogue, with the two girls standing in their window.

MILNER, JOE E. California Joe, noted scout and Indian fighter, by Joe E. Milner & Earle R. Forrest.

" When I got to our cabin all the fellows were asleep, except Westy, and I said to him, "Do you know that scout who's patrol leader in the Ohio troop?" He said, "You mean Winton?"

" "Since Tandakora is here, probably leading the Indian scouts, we'll have to take every precaution ourselves.

Among primitive races the deeds of their gods and heroes are often represented at the yearly festivals; and among children, whose instincts are not yet blunted by artificial habits, one sees the story that was heard at bedtime repeated next day in vigorous action, when our boys turn scouts and our girls princesses, precisely as our first dramatists turned to the old legends and heroes of Britain for their first stage productions.

"Citizen Representatives," called out Cournet, "I have placed scouts in the blind alley who will fall back and warn us if the regiment penetrates thither.

Bennetthe's on some kind of a board and he helped build the hospital and he likes the scouts and he wishes he could shin up a treehe said so.

But as I see no other traces, how is it, do you think, that he happens to be alone?" "The Great Bear may have been making a little scout by himself.

He told me that they needed more scouts at this post, and I accordingly accompanied him to that fort, where I had no difficulty in obtaining employment.

As I rode up to the headquarters I noticed several scouts in a little group, evidently engaged in conversation on some important matter.

The troops organized for the attack were Bernard's and Perry's troops of cavalry, and Green's and Mason's infantry, numbering 250 men; Captain Applegate's and Captain Kelley's volunteers, numbering 225 men, Donald McKay's Indian scouts numbering fifty and the California volunteers under John Fairchilds and Presley Dorris.

But the Snakes had overlooked the Warm Spring scouts, who, hearing the firing, rushed to the rescue and attacking the Snakes in the rear, which was open ground, routed them with the loss of several warriors killed and half a dozen captured.

"If my man and I were alone we would not be afraid of the Mohawks; but these" She made a desperate gesture, and stood staring at the blue Mayfield hills where, perhaps at that moment, painted Mohawk scouts were watching the Sacandaga.

Over it their hunting-parties pass, their scouts, their war-parties.

If an officer planned a scout or campaign, those who thought proper accompanied him, and the others stayed at home, and even those who went out came back if the fit seized them, or perchance followed the lead of an insubordinate junior officer whom they liked better than they did his superior.

That fellow is always playing the scout, Creeping and peeping and prowling about; And then he regales The Abbot with Scandalous tales.