The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-06-25
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AN INDIAN ROMANCE.

er of paternal affection,
As wei! as tale of bitter and terrible rec
venge.
1t is also first class in every respect, war
canted to keep one year in any climate; and it
number of other things which won't men,
zion, because don't want to tell the anecdote
Before get to it. For l once knew man
who undertook TO write a preface to his book.
and when he got through, he couldn't tel
whether to make book of the preface or a
preface OF the book, and he lost his reason and
became a straw-haired lunatic trying to de-
eide.
Out in the prairie dwelt an Indian chief
named frey Nose. and frey Nose had a
daughter. over whose head sixteen Indian
summers might have passed.
Now it will be necessary, you perceive, that
this copper colored young maiden should
have lover, in order to give this story the
proper degree OF interest. So she had Oae,
and his name was Buffalo Bull, and he was an
aged brave, some years her senior, and wore
ilnock-knees and goggles, and was related to
red-haired tribe of Indians, who ate the
bread of idleness, excepting when they were
compelled to work for living. Buffalo Bull
was a fine old brave, and he always Int direct
~ from the shoulder, and considered it no dis
grace to drink nine fingers OF trc-water at one
time, and wear Grape on his hat when his first
wife died.
He also had a cow-ck in his hair.
The old aborigine, frey Nose, hadn't the
slightest idea in the world that such venera-
bic savage as 3. B., sprung in the knees and
spawned as he was ever thought to marry his
daughter. But. strange to say, that was the
identical thing upon which Buffalo Bull had
set his heart.
SO he called one evening at the family man
sion of Frey Nose, with the intention of muir.
derng him in a peaceable and friendly man.
ner, and then clipping with his daughter the
fair Prairie Flower.
On that very night frey Nose sat in his H.
5rary with his war paint on, trying to balance
his scalp account, which was one scalp short
and the Prairie Flower also wore paint, and
sat reading Tupper's inspiring poems under
the chandelier in the front payIor.
When Buffalo Bull came in, he went back
INTO t1e library, and entered into conversation
with the old man, for he had rare conversa-
tional powers, and spoke his native tongue
with facility that was at once admirable and
remarkable.
"Will you take pipes" asked the hospita-
Ole frey Nose. "Do take one'-hauding him
a coil gas pipe. 81 have some tobacco that
has stamp on it, and consequently must be
SoOu. " was grown IN faQucah.'
'Why don't you use the Mud Turtle
brand e asked Buffalo Bull. "Every paper
You buy has u million dollar bill in it, and YOU |
can Get it for five cents. 1t is an excellent in
vestment Tor your surplus earnings. Let me !,
advise you to get some
'..Ah, will ~ said frey Nose, in clear. |
distinct tone. "pravharie," said he to his |
child 800 round and buy me two papers of
Mud Turtle tobacco. You had better ride |
Get n quarters worth Of tickets and you may |
bug yellow jack with the change"
The fair Prairie Flower kissed her aged pa |
rent until his colols began to run, and then |
she went ont on her GRAND with small hat |
over her eyes.
Nice girl, amt she q said frey Nose ''rve
had a great deal of trouble bringing her up,
but am amply repaid and | attribute all to
the fact that raised her with yeast powders
/ got the best. and they did the business"
by the way, old boy, calculated Buffalo
Bull, speaking of your daughter, she's reg
ular straight out, gambogc-skinncd, aborign-
al angci, and no discount on her. She's mob
by bit OF calico: and, while think oft, UNI
'dcrstand young Grizzly Bear the festive brave
tthe Al g0nquins, has viewed her with a crit
les eye and passed her imperfectons by, and
concluded to 90 for her What sayest thou 2
elias hc-has he Well permit me here to
remark. that he has probably Skinned up the
wrong tree. Him Why, I'd just as soon
marry her to some wooden-headed cigar.store
INDIAN. would, upon my sacred word of no.
nor as gentleman"
"Shcs too good for him, peradventurc," OBJ
served Buffalo Bull, sententiously
"Ncnturc your whole pile on that, my boy
She wears low down bOnnets and has her lin
en- embroidered; besides, she chews gum and
has four ounce ring through her nose. No
girl like that is agoing to fling herself away,
IS She! Wen, should think not. Not while
her pa can dabble his hands in gore, at any
rate, reckon"
But, my friend" said Bull, with Il trem-
bling voice, chow much these ebullitlons of |
youthful affection remind me of my childhood
'lays.-Listen to those bona tide tears rs they
patter in the Spittoon. Oh ! where are the
Loved ones gomez
81 give it up" said frey Nose, after few
moments calm and patient thought
Don't you recollect how we used to 20 out !!
on the trail, and capture little children, and |
gouge their eyes out and then come home and |
learn our catechisms, and knife our next door
neighbor, and then pray to the great Manitou |
before we went to bed All those were hap. |
py days, and we were hilarious little Injuns, |
weren't wee But now these things are chang
ed with the irrcvocable past--you bet they
are"
"Yon're drunk, aint you ?" asked frey
Nose. "iou are talking drivel. Where did |
you get your tire.water9"
TO this Buffalo Bull degned no reply. but,
pretending to see something on the top.k