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It was at this camp that we encountered a remarkable echoing well . It was an ordinary open well , forty or fifty feet deep , near a neighboring house , but a word spoken above it came back repeated a score of times . We failed to account for it . The next forenoon we jogged along much the same as usual and stopped for noon at Rushville . This was not far from the Pine Ridge Indian Agency and the place called Wounded Knee , where the battle with the Sioux was fought three or four years later . We saw a number of Indians here , and though they came up to Ollie 's idea of what an Indian should be a little better than the one that rode with us , they still did not seem to be just the thing . -LSB- Illustration : A Study in Red Men -RSB- `` I do n't think , '' he said , `` that they ought to smoke cigarettes . ''