The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-07-03
Visit TO an Indian Camu.

t1sil 10 an llu1an camp.
"Whoo-oop - yelled little Harry
Trevors, clapping his fat hand over his
red lips and sending the sound out by
degrees, as he burst into the kitchen,
where his mother was helping Norah to
bake pies for dinner. Don't / look
like a Niniun? and can't make a noise
just like they do? Whoo-oopl Oh,
mamma, 1 didn't know you was here 4.
thought maybe Norah was all alone,
and lonesome, and I'd muse her."
Mrs. Trevors surveyed the comical
little figure before her with looks of
dismay at the plight into which he had
put himself in order to look as nearly as
possible like the picture of an Indian
warrior which he had seen in Mollie's
geography, while Norah glanced at him
severely, and said to himself, with a lit
tie sigh
Whatever will that tiresome child
be thinkin' 10 DO next, 1 wonder? If l
was the mother of him I'd teach him
better than TO make a haythen of him.
self"
One of brother Ned's red flannel I'M
dershirts had been confiscated by the
would-be red man, and by dint of roll
ing up the sleeves, folding over the
body, and fastening it at the waist with
Grandpa Aliens old soldier-belt, put
on double, was made to do duty as a
warriors blanket. Face and hands
were painted a bright red, tattooed with
blue, in queer lines and curves, the
paints having been selected from Sister
Fanny's choice box of water-colors.
The same had been applied with a
generous hand TO the chubby bare feet /;
but the artist, growing weary of his
work, or, what is more probable, get
ting out of material, had left the ankles
fair and white-contrasting funnilv
enough with the red wrapping and
painted extremities. In his belt he car
ried a Ratchet, taken from the tool
chest in the wood-shed, and q rusty
bread-knife and fastened across his
shoulders a bow made from q barrel
hoop and a piece of cord, and a bundle
of arrows split from a single. A band
of tape tied about the curly head, and
stuck full of feathers from the tail of
the Shanghai rooster, the pride of the
barn-yard, completed handsomely the
costume OF the young savage!
Mamma, did you ever see a MIN
jun? Do l look like one? Ned said I
did. Oh, Norah, you needn't be a bit
afraid; I won't kill you I'm only
going to pretend to cut your hair off,
the way theydid geogerfry book !"
and, suiting the action to the word, he
mounted a chair beside her in Q twink
ling, and Selling the queer little top
knot she Wore, he fourished the rusty
knife in uncomfortable proximity to it.,
and gave utterance to another shrili
AelAC wai-Si..
"Sure, ma'am !" cried Norah, seizing
the knife from his hand, taking the
Ratchet from his belt, and setting him
on his feet upon the floor, with a not
very gentle shake /; "sure, ma'am, that
child will be the very death of me yet
with his tricks !! I'm never safe from
a scare one blessed minute, only when
he's in his bed and sound asleep, and
the saints a-watchin' over him, the
troublesome darlin'."
Come here, Harry, and sit in this
chair beside ne, while 1 make the pie
crust for Norah, and I will tell you a
true story about your Uncle Georges
visit to an Indian camp when he was a
little boy like you"
"Oh, mamma, did they cut his hair
all off, where his head is so bare and
shiny on top? Let me have a teenty
piece of dough and your other rolling
pin, mamma, and then I'll be pacifed,