Here they carefully screened themselves from observation and watched the Shawnees.
Hither and thither they passed, searching among the ruins for plunder, occasionally turning up some trifle upon which they pounced with the avidity of children, and examining the half-burnt remnants of chairs, tables and stands, etc.

Here and there they pulled the black, twisted nails forth, that looked like worms burnt to a cinder, and carefully preserved them for future use.

Every metallic substance was seized as a prize, and some of the wooden portions of instruments were also appropriated.

Thin twists of smoke still ascended from different spots in the clearing, and the ashes when stirred showed the red live coals beneath them.
"Yah! yah! dat feller's got sumkin' nice," said Cato, laughing heartily and silently at one of the Indians, who had pulled forth a long board with evident delight.

Turning it over, he balanced it on his shoulder and was walking rapidly away, when suddenly he sprung several feet in the air with a yell of agony, and jumped from beneath it, rubbing his shoulder very violently as if suffering acute pain.
"Yah! yah! knowed 'twould do dat.