I can whip my weight in wildcats------" "Yes, I know you can," interrupted Joshua.

"You told us so yesterday." The man from Pike seemed rather annoyed at the interruption, but as Mr.Bickford appeared to credit his statement he had no excuse for quarreling.
He proceeded.
"Instantly I sprung to the back of my steed and gave them chase." "Did they see you ?" "They did." "Why didn't they turn upon you?
You said there were twenty of them." "Why ?" repeated the Pike man boastfully.

"They were afraid.

They recognized me as the Rip-tail Roarer.

They knew that I had sent more than fifty Indians to the happy hunting-grounds, and alone as I was they fled." "Sho!" "Did you kill any of them ?" asked Joe.
"When I was some distance on my way I found I had left my revolver behind.