McCook weekly tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 188?-1886, 1884-10-30
THE POET OF THE SIOUX.
His Description Of an Etopement In High
life Among the BtacisIeet.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

Philadelphia Press.
Flying-by, one of the Sioux chiefs
travelling with Sitting Bull, has poets
reputation in his tribe, and often relates
the deeds of prowess of his fellow braves
in verse of heroic measure. One sensa-
ton which occurred some years ago
among another Indian tribe, the Black
feet. A young lady of good society,
residing in city bordering upon the
Indian reservation, eloped with one of
the red skin warriors. Her parents ac-
cepted the inevitable, received the saw
age husband, civilized him, converted
him, and finally made clergyman out
of him. He is now living with his wife
in Dakota.
''That woman has her fancies, and to
ficklety is prone, in many recent in
stances conclusively is shown; but it's
usually considered one would woman's
rights abuse did one limit her decretion
as to matrimonial views. Now scient-
lists and cynics and expounders of the
law, have identically often expressed
themselves before; for, although I'M
equal marriages may harrow parents
much, yet occasionally fashionable
weddings are such.
Its acknowledged as proverbial
that there often is a slip ere the tinkard
(metaphoric) is united to the lip: and |
do not think better can my meaning
here explain, than by giving you the
narrative of Miss Rebecca Paine.
1.-THE father of Rebecca was naughty
millionaire, whose usual disposition
was as surly as bear, and the mother
of Rebecca, she was one of the elite of
most exclusive circle in-well, never
mind the street. They proposed to wed
their daughter to very nice young
man, possessing an enormous coffee
district in Japan, and belonging to
family of distinction and repute, and
who really played exquisitely the from
bone and the flute. The name of the
particularly eligible youth, if remem-
berance doesn't fail me, it was Ralph
de Courcy Booth, and nocturnally he
serenaded Miss Rebecca Paine with a
metrical selection from the opera Belle
Helane.
'sBut that very fractions maiden,
with most contemptuouS frown would
Theoretically fasten every night her
easement down, excepting on those
evenings when she varied things instead
by emptying her water Jug on Ralph de
Courcy'S head, and when he called to
see her, and would fall upon his knees,
she would say This is distressing; you
must get up if you pleasen and when
the poor boy stammered, Take me,
dearest, for your hub!' she would an
swer, No, will not you unmannerly
young cubr and when the stricken
youth hoped his wishes to attain by
bringing quarts of diamonds upon Miss
Rebecca Paine, she would spurn the
glittering baubles with the daintiest of
feet, and distribute them in handfuls to
the beggars in the street.
Nov, it probably astonishes, sur
passes your belief, to learn that Miss
Rebecca she adored an Indian chief,
ruler of the Blackfeet, by the name of
Chockentaw. Yes, Rebecca's one am
bition was to be that chieftain's squaw.
So, undeterred by fashion or society, its
jibe, she would wander to the wood
lands to the wigwams of the tribe,
where she'd watch her redskin lover
throw the agile tomahawk and his cpl
dermis cover with devices in burnt cork
Dut HcI pdI0uGS SOOu UlScOf6rSu lnlS
simplicity of taste and were just little
startled, and, think, showed too much
haste in combining Miss Rebecca in an
attic next the sky, hoping thus to stop
her forest ambulations on the sly.
For at blacksmiths Cupid chuckles and
Chocentaw soon found rope which
quickly lowered his Rebecca to the
ground, and the medicine married both
the lovers on the spot, which proves
parental caution is in many cases-rot.
1.-The parents of Rebecca, when they
saw how things had gone, were bitterly
with sorrow and ind gnation torn; but
as they love the daughter who had left
them in the lurch, they had Chocken-
taw converted and admitted into the
church. Now, doubtless, you may
wonder how it Jared with Master Ralph. |
Well, Chockentaw deprived him (sur-
reptitious) of his scalp; and society,
accepting what it couldn't help, as
facts, cried to scandal .requiescat,' to |
fashion added pax
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