, 1883-12-01
THAT BAD nov.


nose, which looked as though a feeble
attempt had been made to wash it
off, while a rooster feather stuck
through his hat, and a bead moccasin
was on one foot and a rubber shoe on
the other.
ooh! am all 6,EshOO. Bushoo, that
is Indian. am on the war-path, and
am no angel this week. This is my
week off, 1t beats all, don't it, how
different a 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 buff
faloes, and cowboys, and steers, I
am all broke up. We have had the
worst time over to our house that
ever was. You see, all of us boys
in the neighbOrhOOd wanted to have
Buffalo Bill show, and pa gave us
permission to use the back yard, and
he said he would come out and help
us. You know that Boston girl that
was visiting at our house, with the
glasses on? Wei, 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 we laid
for some one to come out of the house,
to scalp, the way they do in the show.
We heard a rustic of female gar
ments, and we all hid, and when the
Boston girl come out to pick some
pansies in mas flower bed, we cap
tured her You never see a girl so
astOniShed as she was. We yelled,
'yip-yip' and l took hold of her hands,
and her hangs raised right up, and
her glasses fell off and she SAID, 'Oh
you hOwwid things We took her
to our lair in the hen house and tied
her to a tin water conductor that
came down by the corner of the barn,
and then we danced a war dance
around her, and yelled, 'ki-yi,' until
she perspired. took my tomahawk
and lifted her hair and hung it on
the chicken rOOst, and then | made
n speech to her in Indian. l said,
"The pale-faced maiden from the
rising sun is in the hands of the
Apaches, and they yearn for gore.
Her brothers and fathers and uncles,
the Indian agents, have robbed the |
children of the forest of their army
blankets and canned lobster, and the |
red man must be avenged. But we
will not harm the pretty white maid !
en-, except to burn her to the stake. I
What has she to say? Will she give
the>red men taffy, or will she burn?"
Just then "a came out with a cistern
pole, and he rescued the white maid
Yin, and said we mustn't be 50 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
rob a coach, and he said it was first
rate. The man that collects the rshes
from the alley, with 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 a clay pipe
and a pocket comb, and a knife, but
he saved the ashes by promising
never to reveal the names of the
robbers. Pa just laughed, when we
gave the ashmln back his knife and
things, and said he hadn't had so
much fun ina long time. Then 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 he
came in handy. He said he could
throw a lasso just like a COW boy.
We got my chum's pas COW out Of
the barn, and drove her up the alley
and pa stood there with a clothes
line, with big nose in the end, and
he headed off the COW and threw the
lasso. Well, you'd a dide to see pa
sweep things ont of the alley with
his pants. The COW was sort of
scared when we drove her up the
alley cause l guess she thought titwas
time she was MIXED, and when pa
stepped out from behind the barrel
and throwed the rope around her
neck, l guess she thought it was all
day with her, for she turned and gal
lOped, 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 sitting down,
and about bushel of ashes got up
his trowsers legs, and the tomato
cans, and old oyster cans flcwarOund
like cyclone was blowing, Us Injins
climbed up on the fence to get out Of
the way, and that scared the cow
more, and she snatched pa along too
quick. Iyelled to let go of the rope,
and Just as the COW drawed him under
a wagon he let go, and the cow took
the clothes IiRe-b0Hla lI,a-got=npul !
and shook the ashes out Of his trow-
sers legs and picked up a piece of
board and started back. You never
saw Il tribe of Indians get scared so
quick as we did. As / went in the
hen coop and got under a barrel l
heard pa say that busts up the Buff
filo. Bill business. No more wild
western steer lassoing for your Uncle
Ike Well, no one was to blame but
pa. lie thinks he can do everything,
and when he tries and gets tangled
up, he lays it to me. We went out
on the street with our tOmahawks,
when pa went in to wash himself,