Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1882-07-20
LULU'S DOLL DID 1T.
A True Story.

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LULU'S DOLL DID 1T.
ATrue Story.
&c FkI$-wHAT LULU TOLD.
s,sMydolr did st. said Lulu to the
As it happened, Meg and I came into
1.-THE play room at that moment, and l
stopped to ask what her doll did. s.
"My doll saved three hundred peo-
Piles lives, and 1 believe Lieutenant
Grattan said perhaps she saved the
country from war. She was not this
doll. This is Gertrude. = She was
Patty-that's Gertrude's grandmother.
When her head was broke-we were at
Fort Darling -thsn-she had honorable
burial. Wendell and Tom fired sa-
lutte over her grave. Sometimes / think
Gertrude looks like her., said Lulu,
~Shehhg Gertrude in the right point of
view. 1" She certainly has her grand
mothers eyes"
An the others laughed at this, it was
SO exactly in the way in which visitors
to their mothers talked about them.
~ ia But what did she do, Lulup" per-
sisted Meg. rr
"Itell you she saved the lives of a
whole command was in camp at a place
they called Sweet-water Gulch-a real
nice place twas, too. And the General
was very anxious, papa said, and l
know mamma was anxious, too. Well,
one day an orderly came running over
to our tents, by the brook, you know, to
ask if Miss Lulu had a doll. was out
fishing, with Wendell, or I should have
sent Abigail. But mamma did not
know, and she seized Patty, and sent
her. tE fFs - },,,I. g, ..,,. i l,,,ifal.,..
I" She did, not come. back for three
days, and then she came with a beauti-
full bunch of grapes, and .seme birds,
from the General to me, and with his
compliments to Miss Lulu-and the
doll had been "a peace-maker, and had
saved all these peoples lives. -. .... ...
~ /" Yes; only wait and I will tell you
4. all about it. is.1 81 i4aD-s.H 600 ,445, .9lF /
"a; tsWe were ordered that is, not mann
ma and Wendell and Patty and I, but
q, the command was ordered-to suppress
an Apache rising. The Apache were
horrid, you know. They had never
member Well, the General he is a
1. real good General anyway, if he did
break sPatty's aleg+ahe hates to kill the
Indians. So he took us to Sweet-water
Gulch, and he Just waited and waited
!, till his time came. ~ Then he heard of
those thirty lodges--that's three hun
,dred people--all by themselves. But he
never touched them. Then he heard of
:, three lodges just. a little, way off, and
4, he bounced on them, and did not kill
one man. He brought them all in pris-
,iionersi iis alafaS la..fT Hiit1taii'i -i'f ~,
-bsesThey we're horrrid. I saw them the
=, next day. They saton the ground with
their, blankets round their heads. 9s You
see, they thought we should roast them
and kin, them. They would not speak
:. to one of the interpreters No; two
whole days they would not say one
word. r. q iizt aii'sz-+'.! r. -Faf .iti'i'
80 .Then the General himself and his
aide, MIR. Grattan-he's real nice-went
to the prison-camp themselves. And
the General took one Indian girl in his
arms and MIR. Grattan took another, and
they carried them to the headquarters
tent. How they did kick and scream!
Wendell and were going fishing, and
as we rode out of camp we could hear
those children screaming, as far, Meg,
as to your fathers house. The General
offered them sugar--and they had candy
brought for them-but they Just
screamed and screamed for hours.
They screamed till they were so tired
that first one and then the other fell
asleep. The Generals wife had one,
sIahd [ believe Mrs. Myers had the other.
: But they could not do anything with
!, them: They would just kick and scream.
Then, when they were asleep, the Cen
eral sent for q doll, and mamma sent
"a nv @Bs ~ dt The Indian, child walked
1np-ard the General had her on hiS
sofa, with His Arab rug on her-and he
sat Where she could not see him; buthe
placed Patty where she could see her.
- Is And I suppose she forgot where she
was. and she began playing with Patty.
Ind then she called the other girl, and
isthere was a white cotton stuffed rabbit
for her. And the two little things began
PLAYING In the tent on the ground, and
then the General gave them candy and
sugar again. And this time they took it.
And before long. Mr.. Grattan and the
General and the two children were all
four, playing together, and We're all
.5vrest friends. sa., a47j
By.and-by, down at the Indians.
dpface-I mean where the prisoners were
..,Lthey told the 'children's mother to
come up to the headquarters tent. And
she came, and 10 and, behold! her two
little. girls were playing with the Cen
eral and Mr.. Gratten. Mr.. Grattan was
sutting out paper horses for them.