The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-01
MiRK TWAIN.
The Noble Red a

u DARING OF mine. 4 love 10 Iedu hDOub
him in tales and legends and romances.
/ love to read of his inspired sagacity ;
and his love of the wild free mountain
and forest; and his grand t~ruthfulness,
his hatred of treachery, and his general
nobility of character; and his stately
metaphorical manner of speech; and his
chivalrous love for his dusky maiden and
the picturesque pomp of his dress and
aocoutrement. Especially the pictures
que pomp of his dress and accoutrement.
When i found the shops at Niagara
Falls full of dainty Indian bead work,
and stunning moccasions, and equal
~ stunning toy figures representing
human beings who carried their weapons
in holes bored through their arms and
bodies, and had feet shaped like a pie, I
was filed with emotion. / knew that
now, at last, / was going to come face
to face with the Noble Red Man. A
lady clerk in a shop told me, indeed
that all her grand array of curiosities
were made by the Indians, and that
there were plenty about the Falls, and
that they were friendly and would not
be dangerous to speak to them. And
sure enough, as approached the bridge
leading over to Luna Island, I came
upon a noble old son of the forest sit
ting under a Zee, diligently at work on
a bead riticule. He wore a SLOUGH hat
and brogans, and had o short black pipe
in his mouth. Thus does the baneful
contact with our effeminate civilization
dilute the picturesque pomp which is SO
natural to the Indian when far removed
from us in his native haunts, / addressed
the relic as follows:
lis the Wawhoo- Wang Wang of the
Wack. a. Whack happy? Does the great
Speckled Thunder sigh for the war
path, or is his heart contented with
dreaming Of his dusky maiden, the Pride
of the Forest? Does the mighty sachem
yearn to drink the blood of his enemies,
or is he satisfied to make bead reticules
for the papooses of the pale face?
Speak, sublime relic of by.gone gran
deur-venerable ruin, speak,"
The relic said:
can is it mesilf, Dinnis Hooligan,
that ye'd be takin for a bloody Injin,
We drawlin', lantern-iawed, spider
legged divill BY the piper that played
before Moses, I'll ate ye!"
/ went away from there.
Bye and bye, in the neighborhood of
the Terrapin Tower, / came upon a
gentle daughter of the aborigines, in
fringed and beaded buckskin moccasins,
and leggins, seated on a bench with her
pretty wares about her. She had just
carved out a wooden chief that had q
strong family resemblance to a clothes
pin, and was now boring a hole through
his abdomen to put his bow through.
/ hesitated q moment and then ed
dressed her:
aIs the heart Of the forest maiden
heavy? lis the Laughing adpole love-
"? Does she mourn over the extin-
guished glory Of her ancestors? Or
does her sad spirit wander afar toward
the hunting grounds whittier her brave
Gobbler- of-the-L ightnings is gone?
Why is my daughter silent? Has she
aught against the pale-face stranger? :"
The maiden said:
aFaix, an is it Biddy Malone We dare
TO be calm namesl Lave this or I'll
shy your lean carcass over the catharact,
ye~ sniveling blagyardp
i adjourned from there, also. Com
found these Indians, / said, they told
me they were tame-but, if appear
ances should 60 for anything, 1 should
say they were all on the wsr-path."
/ made one more attempt to frater-
nize with them, and only one. / came
upon d camp Of them gathered iii the
shade Of q great tree, making wampum
and moccasins, and addressed them In
the language of friendship;
Noble Red Men, Braves, Grand
GAeaems, War Chiefs, SauaEs, and
High-you-M uck-ar Mucks, the pale face
from the land Of the setting sun greets
You. You. Benefcent Polecat--yon,
Deyourer-o of M ountains-you, Roaring
Thundergust-you. Bullyboye-with-
Glass Eye-the pale face from beyond
the great waters greets you ALL War
and pestilence have thinned your ranks
and destroyed your once proud nation.
Poker, and seven-up, snd a vain mod
ern expense for soap, unknown to your
Qlorions ancestors, have depleted your
purses. Appropriating in your simpli-
city the property cf others he's gotten
vou into trouble. Misrepresenting
facts, in your sinless innocences has
damaged your reputation with the sonl-
less usurper. Trading for 40-rod
whisky "a enable Won Ia GET drunk and