However, since it's all I can do, I continyoos to smoke an' watch my execootioners come on.
"'The big lance Injun is the dominatin' sperit of the bunch.

As he draws up to me--he's fifty foot in advance of the others--he makes his lance shiver from p'int to butt.

It fairly sings a death song! I can feel it go through an' through me a score of times.

But I stands thar facin' him; for, of course, I wants it to go through from the front.

I don't allow to be picked up later with anything so onfashionable as a lance wound in my back.