UNDER FIRE.

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time — and the first thing he saw was a whole gang of the enemy.
He jumped down behind a wood-pile, but they rode around and
begun on him, he firing back, and they galloping and cavorting and
yelling and banging away with all their might. Think he wounded
a couple of them ; but they closed in on him and chased him into the
river ; and as he swum along down stream, they followed along the

bank and kept
shooting at

on

him ; and when
he struck shore
he was dead.

Windy Marshall *told
me about it. He saw
it. He was captain
of the boat.

* Years ago, the
Darnells was so thin-
ned out that the old
man and his two
sons concluded they'd
leave the country.

They started to take steamboat just above ]STo, 10; but the Watsons
got wind of it; and thay arrived just as the two young Darnells
was walking up the companion-way with their wives on their arms.
The fight begun then, and they never got no further—both of them
killed. After that, old Darnell got into trouble with the main t&a&
yun the ferry, and the ferry-man got the worst of it—and died. But

THEY KEPT ON SHOOTING.