The Massachusetts spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1831-1858, 1832-06-27

Chunkooamance had, on this occasion
been an invited guest, and had renewed al
his former intimacy with the BRIDEGROOM
He now begged to be allowed, in consid.
Grafton of their friendship, 10 perform. the
function of bride-cariier. AS Khoyapa had
no near male relation living, who might
claim this Office as u right, he consented.
/ Accordingly, after dark, Chunkooama.
nee entered the lodge, and placed the bride
on his shoulders by main force, not without
receiving some severe scratches. for it is
APPOINT of honor with the bride to make a
show of resistance on such OCCASIONS
! However, the young man took the road ,o
Khoyapa's lodge with ais burthen. The
bridegroom and his friends following larnh-
ing and in great good humor.
They had TO pass through thcket. In.
to this, the bridegroom saw Chnnkooamanee
enter, twenty PAGES before him. The next
moment he heard the galloping of horses.
He never saw Putonhoot III again. A blot
had been laid between them. She fed with
the false friend to distant village, and be-
came his wife.
Whatever Khoyapa felt, he said nothing.
Indians are seldom sentimental. He
thought, at first, of pursuit and vengeance.
but he was naturally mild, and soon aban
doned snch intentions. But he consoled
himself with four other maidens, whom he
presently took to wife, according to the very
iaudable practice of the Tetons.
Chunkooamanee, fearing the CONSEQUENT
ces, kept out of Khoyapa's way. The first
year after the event above related, his wife
mahe nm the father of II son, and the sec
ond, she presented him with twins.
A terrible epidemic, of which cannot
tell the name, swept the praires. 1t enter
ed the lodge of Chunk ooamapee. pros,rat-
ed his strength and spirit, and deprived him
OF his wife. He was thus left HELPLESS. with
three small children. He could not hunt
nor could any in the village aid him. All
the able men had fed long before.
Ih this distress he reused himself, for the
sake of his children, to what he believed
his last effort. He put his babes into bags
of buffalo skin, slung them across the back
of horse, and started. His strength last
ed till he reached the village of Khoyapa.
whose door the pestilence had not entered.
The first person he met was his injured
friend. From him the sick man learned
that he had no longer relative, sa:e his
children, alive.
Khoyapa desired the invalid to enter his
mud edifce with his children, and gave him
to eat. When they had smoked, Khoyapa
called his four wives about him, and thus
addressed the man who had wronged him:
MY comrade, listen. You have three
small children who will perish for want
of mother, but yon have no wife. have
four, and three Of them have babes Of thei.
own. This one, pushing her forward, is !
the youngest and the hanGsomest, and the |
most industrious, and she has Just lost her ]
only child. give her to you-take her, !
and let her he mother to your children.
You have no home, my comrade, and you
are sick, and unable to provide for her or
yourself. Stay with Inc, and share my
dwelling, and will hunt for all till you re- |
cover. Let US be again what we once were
to each other"
The lady made no objection; neither did
Chunkooamnnee, and matters we're arrang-
ed, even as Khoyapa had said. Nor did the !
good Teton ever after utter the most re-
mote allusion to the wong ne had suffered.
This is true story.
Did this Christian heather know the
meaning Of Generosity?