River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-05-02
The Little sac's Revenge.
BY THEODORA.

ne Asittit SbSts AheNtESts
BY THEODORE.
al wish YOU would come out to the
tile, all hands said Fay Lovejoy,
thrusting her curly head through the
vines that shaded the east porch, very
early one summer morning.
Hold and Tom Lovejoy and | forsook
our graham gems and breakfast bacon,
and the stle was occupied directly.
Look there said Fay, pointing with
her trembling little hand across the west
ern prairie.
"Great cornstalks !" exclaimed Hold /;
" if il was'nta disparagement to Satanic
Majesty, should say be had started out
upon a parade with band of his most
hideous imps and angels !"
"Pooh said Tom, with greater show
of pracucality sits only old Mo-ko-ho
ko and a crowd of his bedlzened Sacs 60
ing to town for a spree"
"What queer, horrid creature I'm
going to hide,D said Fay and she jumped
Quickly from the stile and hid herself in
tall grass below, where she might
peep through the fence unseen by the APP
preaching pageant.
Soon the Indians came Gathering up to
us. Chief Mo ko-ho ko sported two ponies,
upon one of which he rode, the other being
load led down with such tropics as could
not be suspended from his own monstrous
bulk. The tawdry tinery of the squaws
and braves haunted brilliantly in the
morning sun. Numerous small Indians,
mounted upon untamed mustangs, career
ed along Ike the attendant imps to his
Satanic Majesty"
"There's a pappoose squalling some
where. Does anybody see it?o Tom
said, while the caravan was sweeping past
the stile.
80, see it see it!n said Fay, pop
ping up her head, iorgettul of her intend
ed secrecy. Z" It's in a bag hanging from
the back Of the woman on the speckled
pony Poor tiny creaturel no wonder it
cries, for that WICKED little glrl on the ne xt
pony is pinching its ears. o, why don I
the mother squaw turn round and slap her
good ?" cried Fay, Indignantly.
"There, she's catching hazy now .
laughed Tom, applaudiDgly.
Turning suddenly, the mother sqnaw
detected the misehievous little tormentor
inficting her prosecuting pinches With
an angry cutlery she raised her hnd and
gave tie gil blow that sent her Keeling
from her horse and laid her sprawling in
re dust The girl jumped quickly up.
<yeyer, and, running forward, caught
.er pony by the tail and attempted to re-
gain her place upon its back. The mother
squaw, seeing her design, seized the pony
by the name and led it off on a gallOp,
leaving the little culprit badly in the
lurch. Chief Mo-ko-ho-ko for once was
moved to fellow the example of a squaw,
and the whole company went flying oVe.'
the prairie. The girl trudged after with
lazy stoiclsm 50 natural TO the Indian
race.
"Ef that thar brat don't hev ter tramp
1t all Their way ter Lawrence, thirty miles
or more, I'll never bet on an Iniin's dan
der agin,nOt J" said Jim Graft, the prairie
sod breaker, who was starting off to his
work mounted on the cushioned seat of his
ehariot.plough drawn by two spans of
premium horses.
"Rather AN imposing spectacle they
present. The glory of the poor Indian
hasn't entirely depai ted after all" said
IIod,as we returned to the breakfast table.
"Just waiG till they come back this wav
in three or four days. said Tom. "Tkey'll
be drunk and dirty enough. All their
toggery will have been snapped for
y whskey, and their war paint will have
been washed off in the gutter
Tom had had the benefit Of several
IS experience in Kansas, having come
.s~,rom ST. Louis early in May. Hold and
he'd arrived only the day before
snce the Sac Indians were curiosity TO
"a them.
Several days passed, during which Fay
n kept up constant watch fer the return Of
the Indians She began to fear at length,
less they had made final emigration TO
some far off hunting ground.
"Neyer fret, fairy lass said Jim.
8 They'll fetch up in good time, drunk as
fddlers and naked as circus tumblers I've
seen lniuus rioe inter town like princes
and ride out like piupers."
One aiteruoos Fay sat upon the stile,
beneath the shade of two spreading To-.
Gusts. busly engaged in transforming
4 Dinah, her mnnstrous negro doll, into an
Indian soulw. She had bestuek her with
feathers, stre4ked her ebony face with
scarlet paint. and tr,cked her out in ytri-
Gus ways, producing a comicai effect
Perhaps am hour had elapsed, when Fay
started suddenly, poised herself erect,and,
shading her eyes with her hand, stood
Gazing intently over the eastern prairie.
Next seiziug Dinah she jumped from the
sdle aud bid herself in the grass. sat
~ tie house by the window, watching in
a state Of curious expectancy. Pretty soon
aall rider appeared il sight, leading by
maue a speckled pony. From the back