"Nobody badly hurt, I hope ?" "Nothing very bad, captain," Dick Caister replied cheerfully.

"We have all had our skin ripped up a bit, but nothing very deep.

That dodge of the saddles, of your black fellow, saved us.

Mine was knocked over half a dozen times by spears, each of which would have done its business, if it hadn't been for it.

I owe him my life so completely, that I forgive him for making our horses a barricade, to save yours." Reuben laughed.