up.

"D'ye see the little lumps on the shoulder o' each

horse?" said Joe. "Them's Injun's

feet

; an' if we don't

want to lose our scalps we'd better make for the forest."

Joe proved himself to be in earnest by wheeling

round and making straight for the thick wood as fast as

his horse could run. The others followed, driving the

pack-horses before them.