The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-06-19
Visit TO an Indian Camp.

Visit 10 an Indian camp.
Whoo-oop - yelled little Harry
Treyors, 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 L look
like Niniun and can't make a noise
Just like they do? Whoo-oop Oh,
mamma, l didn't know you was here !
l thought maybe Norah was all alone,
anu 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 lit
tie sigh
Whatever will that tiresome child
be thinkin' to do next / wonder? If /
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 contiscated by the
would-be red man, and 10y 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 20 do duty as
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
70 ha aI,ttlA NV Nar co.
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 funnily
enough with the red wrapping and
painted extremities. In his belt he car
ried n Ratchet, taken from the tool
chest in the wood-shed, and a rusty
bread knife; and fastened across his
shoulders a bow made from a barrel
hoop and piece OF cord, and bundle
OF arrows split from shingle. 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 Min
jun Do look like one? Ned said [
did. Oh, Norah, you needn't be bit
afraid 1 won't kill you I'm only
going to pretend to cut your hair oil,
the way they did Ill the geogerfry book ;"
and, suiting the action TO the word, he
mounted chair beside her in twink
ling, and Selling the queer little top
knot she wore, ne fourished the rusty
knife in uncomfortable proximity to it,
and gave utterance to another shrili
little war-cry
"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
q 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 me, while / make the pie
crust for Norah, and l will tell you a
true story about your Uncle Georges
visit 10 an Indian camp when he was
little boy like you.
"Oh, mamma, did they cut his hair
shiny on top? Let me have teenty
piece of dough and your other rolling
pin, mamma, and then I'll be 3ldcifed,
aud you can tell me about it while L
make little pie for Rover"
Rolling-pin and pie-crust were sup
piled, and Norah gave sundry little de-
lighted winks and mods at Mrs. Trevors,
as the little warrior, looking like u
something between a Camanche chief
and picture in comic almanac, went
gravely To work, rolling and patting the
piece of dough, which soon assumed
colors entirely new in pie-crust; his
feathers futtering, and the red robe
tapping about his white ankles and blue
and-red toes.
When your Uncle George was lit
tie boy like you, Harry, your grandpa
was sent to new part of the country,
where there were few white people, to
trade with the Indians, / don't think
you would at all like to live as little
George had to. Instead of nice
house like this, with pleasant parlors
and large, airy bedrooms, theirs was
built of rough logs, and had but sim
gle room below, and chamber over
head, with o ladder for stairs. When
grandpa was away, grandma used to
take the little children upthere to sleep,
aud pull the ladder up after her, so that
if the Indians came around, they could
not trouble her and the babies. There
was camp of them only few miles
from the settlement, and ore day the
chief and some of his men came to the
village to attend to some business with
grandpa and when they were. ready to