Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-06-05
fishing and making moccaslns and bask'
cts. which they traded with the whites.

Sne nau pHpOOsc on ncf DaCk Strapped
on board, another squaw travelled will
her, carrying an empty jug.
almost within sight of Germans gro
cery, Red'Sky took off her papoose ant
hung it on tree. The fellows around thl
store had made fun of it when she wa
there once before, so she preferred to leave
it in the woods rather than to expose it t
the coarse jokes of the boys, The little
thing was used to such treatment
Whether carried or hung up, papooscy
never cried.
"The squaws traded off the truck, and
bought, with other luxuries ofcivilization
a gallon of whisky They drank out oil
the Jug, and then looked at more goods.
Then they drank again, and from being
shy and silent, us at first they giggled and
cnatted like couple OF silly white girls.
They spent good deal more time and
money at Germans than they would il it
hadn't been for the whisky, but finally
they started to 90 back through the woods.
They went chattering and giggling TO
the tree where the papoose had been left.
There was no papoOse there
"This discovery sobered them. They
thought at first that the fellows around
the store had played them trick by taxi
ing it away; but by-and.by the Red.Sky-
ot-the.morning set up shrek.
"She had found the board not far Off
but no papoose strapped to it, only some
thing that told the story of what had hap.
pened.
There were bear tracks around the
spot. One OF the prints showed only two
claws.
"The Red-Sky.of-the Morning wentback
to the camp with the news; the other
squaw followed with the Jug.
When the Water.Snakc- with-thC Long
Tail heard that his papOoSe had been eat,
en- by bear, he felt, | suppose, very
much as any white father would have felt
under the circumstances. He vowed ven
geance against Old Two Claws, but con-
soled himself with drink of the fire.
water before starting on the hunt.
The braves with him followed his ex-
ample. 1t wasn't in Indian nature to
start until they had cmptied the jug, so it
happened that Old Two Claws got off
again. Tipsy braves cant follow Il trail
worth cent.
"Not very long after that woman in a
neighboring settlement heard her child
rem scream one day In the woods near the
house. She rushed out, and actually saw
a bear lugglng off her youngest.
''She was Sckly, feeble sort of wOm-
IN, but such sight was enough to give
her the strength and courage of man.
She ran and caught up an axe. Luckily,
she had a big dog. The two went at the
| bear.
"Ihe old fellow had no notion of losing
his dinner Just for woman and il mon.
grel cur But she struck him tremcnd-
Gus blow OH the back; at the same time
the pup got him by the leg. He dropped
the Young one to defend himself She
caught it up and ran, leaving the two
beasts to have it out together.
"The bear made short work with the
cur, but instead of following the woman
and child he skulkcd off into the woods.
"The settlers got together for a grand
hunt; but Old Two Claws--for the tracks
showed that he was the scoundrcl-es-
capped into the mountains and lived to
make more trouble another day.
"Ihe child? Oh, the child was scarcely
hurt. 1t had got squeezed and scratched
Il little ia the final tusslc; that was all.
"As to the bear, he was next heard of
in our settlement"
The hostlnr Lnsitoted winkel his ono
eve with An odd EXPRESSION, mt n fresh
Guid into his cheek, and finally resumed:
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Of the name Of Rush. was one day chop
ping in the woods about half mile from
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