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o the encampment of the savages--Joe's illness again--The surprise--The terrific encounter--Rescue of Mary--Capture of the young chief--The return. CHAPTER XIII. The return--The young chief in confinement--Joe's fun--His reward--The ring--A discovery--William's recognition--Memories of childhood--A scene--Roughgrove's history--The children's parentage. CHAPTER XIV. William's illness--Sneak's strange house--Joe's courage--The bee hunt --Joe and sneak captured by the Indians--Their sad condition --Preparations to burn them alive--Their miraculous escape. CHAPTER XV. Glenn's History. CHAPTER XVI. Balmy Spring--Joe's curious dream--He prepares to catch a fish--Glenn --William and Mary--Joe's sudden and strange appearance--La-u-na, the trembling fawn--The fishing sport--The ducking frolic--Sneak and the panther. CHAPTER XVII. The bright morning--Sneak's visit--Glenn's heart--The snake hunt--Love and raspberries--Joe is bitten--His terror and sufferings--Arrival of Boone--Joe's abrupt recovery--Preparations to leave the West--Conclusion. WILD WESTERN SCENES: A NARRATIVE OF ADVENTURES. CHAPTER I. Glenn and Joe--Their horses--A storm--A black stump--A rough tumble--Moaning--Stars--Light--A log fire--Tents, and something to eat--Another stranger, who turns out to be well known--Joe has a snack--He studies revenge against the black stump--Boone proposes a bear hunt. "Do you see any light yet, Joe?" "Not the least speck that ever was created, except the lightning, and it's gone before I can turn my head to look at it." The interrogator, Charles Glenn, reclined musingly in a two-horse wagon, the canvas covering of which served in some measure to protect him from the wind and rain. His servant, Joe Beck, was perched upon one of the horses, his shoulders screwed under the scanty folds of an oil-cloth cape, and his knees drawn nearly up to the pommel of the saddle, to avoid the thumping bushes and briers that occasionally assailed him, as the team plunged along in a stumbling pace. Their pathway, or rather their direction, for there was no beaten road, lay along the northern bank of the "Mad Missouri," some two hundred miles above the St. Louis settlement. It was at a time when there were no white men in those regions save a few trappers, traders, and emigrants, and each new sojourner found it convenient to carry with him a means of shelter, as houses of any description were but few an
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