Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

"Ohs hoW 10 my It1efC anger WlInOuV
wings, tO-dayp" asked the groceryman
of the bad boy, as he came in with red
paint sticking to his ears, and blue
paint around his eyes and nose, which,
looked as though feeble attempt had
been made to wash it off, while roos-
ter feather stuck through his hat, and n
beaded moccasin was ON one foot and
rubber shoe was on the other.
20, am a bushoo. Bushoo, that is
Indian. atfs on the war-path, and
am no angel this week. This Is my week
off. 1t beats all, don't 1t, how different
fellow feels at different times. For
the last two weeks have been so good
that it made me fairly ache, and since
that Buffalo Bill show was here with
the Indians, and buffaloes, and cow
boys, and steers, am all broke tip. We
have had the worst time at our house
you ever saw. You see all Of us boys
in the neighborhood wanted to have q
Buffalo Bill show, and pa gave us per-
mission to use the back yard, and he
said he wot1ld come out and help us.
You know that Boston girl that was
visiting at our house, with the glasses
ON? Well she went home the next day.
She says this climate is too wild for
her. You see, we boys all fixed up as
Indians and laid for some one to
come out of the house, to scalp tie way
they do in the show. Weheard a rus
tie of female garments, and We all hid
and when the Boston girl came out to
pick some pansies in mas flower bed,
we captured her. You never see a girl
so astonished as she was. We yelled
'yip, yip' and i took hold of one of her
hands and my chum took hold of the
other, and her bangs raised right up,
and her glasses fell off, and she said, ~
you how'd things We took her to our
lair in the hen house and tied her to
tin rain water conductor that came
down by the corner of the barn, and
then we danced q war dance around
her, and yelled 'ki-ki' until she perspir-
ed. i took my tomahawk and lifted her
hair and hung it on the chicken roose
and then made speech to her i'm In
dian. said, The pale faced maiden
from the rising sun is in the hands of
Apaches, and they yearn for gore. Her
brothers and fathers and uncles, the In
dian agents, have robbed the children
of the fore, of their army blankets and
canned Holsters, and the red man must
be avenged. But we will not harm the
pretty white maiden, except to burn
her at the stake. What has she to sayY
w II she give the red man taffy, or will
she burn?' Just then pa came out with
a cistern pole, and he rescued the white
maiden and said we mustn't be so
rough. Then the girl said she would
give us all the taffy we wanted, and she
went in and she and ma watched us
from the back window: Pa he watched
us robbing coach, and he said it was
first-rate. The man that collects the
ashes from the alley, witha horse and
wagon, he had just loaded up and got
on the wagon when two of my Indians
took the horse by the bits, and four of
us mounted the wagon and robbed the
driver of clay pipe and a pocket comb
and knife, but he saved his
ashes by promising never to re-
veal the names Of the robbers
Pa just laughed, when we gave the
ash man back his knife and things, and
said he had not bad so much fun for a
long time. Tffen we were going TO lasso
a wild Texas steer and ride it, the way
they did In the show, and pa said that
was where lie came i'm handy. He said
he could throw q lasso just like cow
boy. We got my chum's pas cow out
of the barn and drove her up the alley,
and pa stood there with q clotbes-line,
with big moose In the end, and he
headed of the cow and threw the lasso.
Well, you'd dide TO see pa sweep things
out of the alley with his pants. The
COW was sort of scared when we drove
her up the alley cause guess she thought
it was time she was MIXED, and when
pa stepped out from behind thu barrel
and threw the rope around her neck.
1 guess she thought it was all day with
her, for she turned and galloped, and
kicked up and bellered, and pa did not
know enough to let go of the rope. First
pa followed the COW down the alley sit
ting down, and about a bushel of ashes
got up his trousers leg. tomato cans
and old oyster cans few around like
cyclone was blowing. Us Injins climb
ed up on the fences to get out of the
way, and that scared the COW more, and
she snatched pa along too quick. Iyelled
to pa to let go of the rope, and just as
the COW drawed him under wagon he
let go, and the cow took the clothes
| line home. Pa got mp and shook the
ashes out of his trowsers legs and pick
ed up piece of board and started back.
You never saw a tribe of Indians get
scared as quick as We did. As I went
in the hen coop and got under a barrel
/ heard pa say, That b6sts up the Buff
falo Bill business. No more wild west
ern steer lassoing for your Uncle Ike.'
Well, no one was TO blame but "a. He
thinks Ire can do everything, and when
he tries and gets tangled, he lays it or
me. We went out OH the street with
our tomahawks, and pa went i'm TO
brush himself, and we disbandeA and
went to our reservation, and peace
reigns again, and the Boston girl has
gone home with the idea that we are ali
heathens out west.'
II should think your pa would learn,
after a while, that he is too old to fool
around as Ire did When Ire was boy,''
said the grocery man. as he got away
from The boy Tor lear he would bs scalp
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