ORLANDO’S ADVENTURES 

Part V - Wagon Train – Ambush

by Jackie S Brooks

Soon the day of departure arrived
and there was great excitement all round,
as supplies and passengers were loaded
on the wagon train, Westward bound.

Orlando and Omar had already joined
the wagon pulled by Piet and Hans
and they settled down inside
amid piles of rope and tin pans.

Their driver, Old Smokey Joe,
told Orlando and Omar many tales,
of his life as a mountainy man and
of adventures exploring new trails.

He told them of hunting and trapping
with frontiersman Daniel Boone,
“he’s out there in Indian country
and we may meet up with him soon.”

Then along the trail one day
Daniel Boone and his scouts appeared,
he told them of an Indian upraising
“A war party is approaching I’m feared.”

“You must keep your wagons together
and make haste to reach Fort Pitt,
spread out in this wild country,
you’ll be an easy target to hit.”

But the warning had come too late,
Smokey Joe told the friends to run,
“Go hide deep in the undergrowth,
to be captured will not be such fun.”

The wagon train came under attack,
Orlando and Omar watched in dismay,
and the Indians whooped and hollered
as they carried their captives away.

Then the friends made a brave decision
that on them the future depends,
so they set off to follow the trail,
they must try to rescue their friends.

For two days they followed the trail
then Orlando climbed up a tall tree,
“The Indian camp is close by,
let’s plan how to set our friends free.”

To be continued
© Jackie S Brooks
6^th August 2005

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