"It will be when we get some of you where you cannot defend yourselves. We will kill fifty or a hundred of you soldiers, and then we will do what we please with the Fort."
"Well, by George! When you attempt that, I hope you will get whipped for your pains."
Guy was angry now, and he said just what he thought.
"American soldiers are not the men to give way before a handful of savages," he continued.
"A handful of savages! How many do you suppose there are watching you night and day?" asked Winged Arrow; and his eyes flashed and he clenched his hands nervously together.
"Well, I suppose you have a great many; but it will take more men than you can raise to whip us out. I presume you have a thousand."
"Say three thousand and you will hit it. And there are more coming in every day. Now I will tell you what is a fact: You have never seen an Indian war yet."
"I know that. I have never seen any."
"After you have seen one you will never want to see another. A battlefield is something awful to look at."