Pawnee Express - Part 7
‘Before the sun goes down,’ Jim said,
‘we have to brief each team.
Each group must be well led,
to work on our planned theme.’
With a model on the soil,
to illustrate the plan.
The soldier’s ‘recce’ plans to foil,
Jim said, ‘I know we can.’
In groups of eight or ten,
braves set off with instruction.
Spare ponies packed for when,
they started their construction.
O’er the prairie then they rode,
to amend the situation.
To set up an ‘abode’,
in many a new location.
When all the braves had gone,
to do what they must do.
Jim would watch as the sun shone,
for approaching ‘soldiers blue’.
Jim was camped out on the plain,
where he could keep an eye.
Not much on the terrain,
where the patient vultures fly.
A distant cloud of dust,
rose slowly to the sky.
Jim rode now as he must,
to give this his best try.
‘Good morning there!’ called Jim,
as he approached the squad.
The Captain looked at him,
and said, ‘Jim Watt, my God...’
Jim said, ‘It’s been some years,
since I set eyes on you.
We took separate careers,
I wondered how you’d do...’
‘We’ve come out from Fort Sound,
to look here for some land.
Jim you know your way around,
perhaps you’d lend a hand...’
Two days riding o’er the plain,
Jim led to parts selected.
Surprise he’d have to feign,
so they’d share the unexpected.
On approaching a new site,
Jim would simply say, ‘Hold back.
I’ll check that it’s alright,
I don’t want them to attack.’
Jim rode amongst the tepees,
and then he would dismount.
He’d bluff numbers then with ease,
exaggerating his ‘head count’.
Six locations Jim ‘located’,
tepees in the soldier’s views.
Each time the soldiers waited,
till Jim returned with ‘news’.
‘There are many more than these...’
to the Captain Jim explained.
Jim lied with casual ease,
and the bluff was well maintained.
Jim was thanked then for his aid,
by the Captain and his men.
An important part Jim played,
then they all rode home again.
Jim explained all to the chief,
how he’d bluffed the soldiers blue.
Many hundreds their belief,
but in fact there were but few...
The Captain got back to the fort,
and explained ‘bout each location.
As he went through his report,
the Pawnee seemed a massive nation.
‘No town will be planned there,’
said the Commandant and then,
‘It would be totally unfair...
risking the lives of all my men...’
to be continued...
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