The Indian's Hand: 1892

Stoddard, Lorimer · 1901

The men had driven away. Their carts and horses disappeared behind the roll of the low hills. They appeared now and then, like boats on the crest of a wave, further each time. And their laughter and singing and shouts grew fainter as the bushes hid them from sight. The women and children remained, with two old men to protect them. They might have gone too, the hunters said. "What harm could come in the broad daylight?--the bears and panthers were far away. They'd be back by night, with only two carts to fill."…

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