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IN A TREE.
All this passed in much less time than has been necessary to describe it.

Not until Fred Munson saw that the Apaches were repulsed did he reflect upon the startling fact that there was no one among all the settlers that was placed in as perilous a position as he.
The red-skins were between him and the houses, or fortifications, as they may be considered.

He was alone, and although he had no gun in his possession, yet it cannot be supposed that his situation would have been any less dangerous on that account.

In the excitement of interest, he had climbed to the highest attainable portion of the tree, where he not only had a good view of the thrilling contest going on under his very eyes, but where the contestants themselves, had they chosen to glance toward him, could have obtained an equally good view of him.