Oklahoma Writerst Project	60



	We jest leave everything setting right whar it is, tcepting putting out de fire and grabbing all de pots and. kettles. Some de nigger voinen ran to git de mules and. de wagon and some start gitting meat and corn out of d.e place whar we done hid. J~t to keep de scouters from finding it befot now. All de tinte we gitting ready to travel we hear dat boy on dat horse going on down de big Texas road hollering. “~ra—a~a‘he-‘he—hah!~

	Den jest as we starting to leave here come something across dat little prairie shoe nuff! ~e know dey is Indians de way dey is riding, and de way dey is all strang out. Dey had a flag, and. it was all red thid had a big criss-cross on it dat loo1~ lab a saw horse. De mari carry it and. rear back on it when de wind whip it, but it flap all round de horsets head and. de horse pitch and rear lak he Imow something going havpen, she!

	t3out dat time it turn kind of dark and begin to rain a little, and. we git out to de big road. and de rain come dorn liard. It rain so hard. for a little while dat we jest have to stop de wagon and set dar, and. den long come more soldiers d&i I ever see befog. Dey all white men, I think, and dey have on dat brown clothes dyed wid walnut and butternut, and old. Master say dey de Confederate soldiers. Dey dragging some big guns on wheels and. most de men slopping ‘long in de rain on. foot.

	Den we hear de fighting up to de north ‘long about what de river is, and de guns sound lak hosses loping tcross a plank bridge way off soméwhar. De head men start hollering and seine de hosses start rearing and de soldiers start trotting faster up de road. !e cantt git out on de road so we jest strike off through de prairie and make for a creek dat got high banks and a place on it we call Rocky Cliff.

	~	Te git in a big cave in dat cliff, and spend de whole day and. dat ni~it in dar, and. listen to de battle going on.