Jed Cartwright and the Comanche Raiders by Ed Dunlop

Author:Ed Dunlop
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: childrens fiction, cowboys, christian fiction, western fiction, christian action adventure, christian childrens book
Publisher: Sword of the Lord Foundation

The Comanches traveled again the next day, dismantling their tepees early in the morning and obliterating any signs of their camp, then traveling hard with a brief pause for a noonday meal. As before, Jed and Mandy rode together on the back of a little pinto pony.

Late that afternoon the tribe came to a halt, and a scout suddenly rode forward and conferred with Chief Howaka. The chief turned his horse about in a full circle, surveying the land. He nodded and then pointed toward a series of gently rolling hills three miles to the north. The caravan began to move again, and less than an hour later they entered the hills. Chief Howaka raised one hand, and the tribe stopped once more.

While the Comanches stood silent, the chief rode forward thirty paces and then rode his mount in a circle three times to the right. He then circled three times to the left.

"What's he doing?" Mandy wanted to know.

"I don't know," her brother whispered. He grinned. "I think he's just trying to make the horse dizzy."

Chief Howaka then dismounted and circled three times to the right on foot, then made three circles to the left. When he had finished, the tribe began to set up camp. Their new home was situated right on the banks of a creek, at the edge of a picturesque forest. The Cartwrights looked around. The new location for the village was beautiful.

While the men started setting up the tepees, the women scattered and began to search for firewood. After Jed and Mandy helped Little Deer setup their tepee—again in the center of the new camp—Jed helped the men set up other tepees while Mandy gathered sticks with the women.

Jed watched as an old brave knelt on the ground beside a little wigwam-shaped pile of sticks. The man placed a short piece of wood on the ground, and the boy noticed that it had a round, smooth hole in the center. The old Comanche picked up a small bow about two feet long. It looked like a miniature hunting bow, complete with rawhide string. The brave looped the rawhide around a short, perfectly straight stick and then inserted the lower end of the stick into the smooth hole in the block on the ground.

From a rawhide pouch, the old man took a pinch of pale yellow powder and sprinkled it around the hole. He glanced up and saw Jed watching him intently. He smiled and then went back to his work.

The women of the village had finished gathering firewood, but none of them had yet started a cooking fire. They began to gather around the old man kneeling on the ground. Each woman held a few small sticks in her hands.

Jed noticed that the old Comanche had a small pile of dead grass beside his foot. The man began to move the bow back and forth quickly, holding the upper end of the stick with his free hand. The stick spun rapidly in the hole in the wood, moved by the rawhide string.

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