Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-07-30

Ter n men Salu just as landsOlne.
But she was one of the quiet kind Of
women. She never talked much, and
when she was ~displeased she said moth
ing at all.
''On the third day out Eagle Feather
saw the fresh track of a buck deer. and
he borrowed his Oldest sisters gray
pony and followed il The gray vas
her ~favorite and the one she always
rode. He was gentle, but very fast,
and that Is the reasou that Eagle
Feather wanted 10 take him. At night
he came back on foot. with the deer
slung owe his shoulders. He threw
down his load and went into the lodge.
l heard Red Bird say. Where is the
gray ponyF Blossoming Rose silently
handed him food and drink, but he
would not touch them. lie had wound
ed the deer in the leg. and Wien he ran
he had chased him on the gray till both
were ready TO drop.
Then he came up to him and fired
again without dislnounting. and the
pony plunged and threw him, but stood
still trembling He had not been used
to having the gun fired over his head.
Eagle Feather was angry, and he
jumped up and struck him with the
butt of his gun. and he turned end gal
loped away IL was of no use TO try to
catch the pony after that. so Eagle
Feather went home on foot, carrying
the deer. The sisters were greatly dis
pleased. All night long Red Bird scold-
ed and rallied II him. No one in the
lodge could sleep Her sister said moth
ing but this. / must journey on foot
now But the next day the gray came
back to camp Of his own accord, with
the saddle and bride. and all uninjured.
when we reached Pretty-Voiced
Hawks village on the Spotted Tail
agency, we went to my sisters house.
My oldest sister married a white mans
son, and they have a good loghouse Of
two rooms and a great many ponies
and cattle. She cooked a great supper
for US, and We camped there for the
night. | gave her daughter a most
beautiful dress that l made myself-it
was made of six very large buckskins,
and the Waist and sleeves covered with
beads. On a white ground stood four
horses-two in front and two behind
facing either way. One was blue, and
one was red, and one was spotted, and
one was black-and at the head Of
each stood a man holding him by the
bit. The skirt was finished with deep
fringe and white and blue beads in mar
row ows above the fringe. gave it
to her and she gave me a pony. The
next year l brought her a striped
blanket from the south, and she gave
me another pony. l made two OF those
beaded dresses-the other one belonged
to Red Bird.
Among the hills tipped with pines
between Spotted Tail and Red Cloud
there were still, in those days, antelope
and deer. We camped there many
nights. Lone Pine shot seventeen an
telopes and eight black tailed deer, and
the Others wounded a few. but not so
many as he. The women hung up
every day long lines of venison cut in
thin strips to dry, and we dressed the
largest and best skins and made many
m~occasins. Lone Pines daughters were
called the finest workers and the most
industrious. Red Bird usually en-
broidered in beads, and the patterns,
which she invented herself, were so
beautiful that all the women wanted
them; but the most skillful in working
with %porcupine quilts of all eolors was
Blossoming Rose. Lone Pine had a
very large tent, like those we all had ia
the old days when our lodges were Of
tanned buffalo skin, which were warm
in winter and cool in summer.
every evening when the sun went
down and the men, who had eaten
nothing all day, came in with their
booty, they would gather in this great
tent, where the women would have a
haunch of venisOn on the spit and a
great pot Of coffee swinging over the
blaze. and then they would eat and
smoke and tell of the days adventures,
sometimes till the middle of the night.
There had always been a few bears In
these pine ridges, but they said that
they were all gone now. One night,
however, High Bears little brother
came home crying, with a deep wound
in his shoulder. He was out with the
two young men, when they saw a great
bear lying among the rocks.
"High Bear went close up to II and
fired, but he only wounded it, and
High Bear leaped on his pony and they
all fed. The bear gave chase, and the
boys pony became frightened and
threw him, so that the bear came up TO
him and stood over him growing. Lie
still as if you were dead, an he won't
touch youl If you o you viii be
killed. screamed High Bear. The boy
obeyed, and the bear took his arm in
his great teeth and bit it to the bone;
but as he still did not stir and seemed
to be dead he left him and walked
-0rowIing AWAY EAGLE Feather now