The Dawson journal., 1883-11-29

60, and the COW took the clothes
line home. Pa got up and shook
the ashes out of his trowers legs
and picked up a piece of board
and started back. You never saw
tribe of Injuns get scared SO
quick as we did. AS [ went in the
hen coop and got under barrel I
heard pa say: That busts up the
Buffalo Bill business. No more
Wild western steer lassoing for
your uncle Ike Well, no one
was to blame but pa. He thinks
he can do everything,
and when he tries and gets
tangled, he lays it to me. We
went out on the street with our
tomahawks, when pa went in to
brush himself, and disbanded and
went on to our reservation, and
peace reIgns again, and the Bos-
ton girl has gone home with an
Idea that we are heathens out
west"
Il should think your pa would
learn after awhile that he is too
Old to fool around as he did when
he was boy" said the grocery
man, as he got away from the boy
for fear he would be scalped.
That's what | told him when he
wanted to try my bicycle" said the
boy, as he broke out laughing
HE saw me riding the bicycle, and
said he could do it as well as I
could, if he could once get on, but
he couldn't spring up.on.it quite as
spry as he used to, and he wanted
me and my chum to hold it while
he got on. I told him he would
get hurt, but he said we couldn't
tell him anything about riding, SO
we got the bicycle up against a
shade tree, and put his feet on the
treadles, and told US to turn him
loose. Well, honest, I shut nv
eyes cause [ didn't want to see pa
get tied up in knot. But he did
He pushed with one foot, and the
bicycle turned sideways, and then
he pushed with the other foot and
it began to wiggle, and then he
pushed with both feet, and pulled
on the handles, and the front
wheel struck an iron fence and as
pa went on top of the fence the
h!nd wheel seemed to rear up and
kicked him, and pa hung to the
fence and the bicycle hung to pa,
and they both went down on the
sidewalk, the big wheel on pas
stomach, one handle up his trou-
ser's leg, the other handle down
his coat collar, and the other wheel
rolling around back and forth over
hls fingers, and lie yelled to us to
take 1t off [ never saw two peo-
pie tangle up the way pa and the
bicycle was, and we had to take it
apart, and take pas coat off and
roll up his pants to get out. And
when he got up, and shook him
self to see if he was all there, and
looked at it as though he didn't
know it was loaded, and looked at
me and then at my chum in sort
of a nervous way, and looked
around and schringed as though
he expected the bicycle was going
to sneak up behind him and kick
him again, he wanted me to 60 and
get the ak to break the bicycle up
with, and when l laughed he was
going to take me by the neck and
maui the bicycle, but [ reasoned
him out of it. l wasn't to blame
for his trying to gallop over an
iron picket fence with bicycle,
cause | told him he better keep
off of it. [ think if men would
take advice from boys oftener they
wouldn't be SO apt to get Ctheir sus-
penders caught on an iron picket
fence and have to be picked up in
a basket. But there is no use of
us boys telling a grown person
anything, and by keeping still and
letting them break their bones, we
save getting a good kicking. 1t
would do some men lots of good to
be boys all their lives, then they
wouldn't have to initiate. Hello,
there goes the police patrol wag-
on, and | am going to see how it
rides on the back step" and the
boy went out and jumped on the
end Of the wagon, and then picked
himself up out of the mud and
and felt Of his head where the po-
liceman's club dropped on it.