San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-08-20
MUKWANAGO'S DAUGHTER.
An Indian Legend Which Is Prob
ably as True as Many Others.


Forest and Stream.
Muk-a-wan-i.ago, or Mukwanago,
as brutal Saxon has curtailed the
flowing Indian speech, loved his
daughter and gratified her every
wish, except when that gave him any
trouble; but he was a man of stern
and upyielding principle. He could
not help this, on account of his line
age. His intellect was acute, and in
natural ability and foresight he sur
passed his tribe. When his eye fell
upon the lovely sheet of water which
walled in by noble-wooded bluffs, lay
clear and sparkling in the natural
amphitheater situated about two or
three miles from the Indian village
he realized at once its magnificent
fitness for legendary purposes IF !
am not mistaken, and 1 never am,
said MukwahagO, this place will
eventually be- great summer resort
and the price of frogs will double.
The water is clear tho climate health
full and the fishing excellant. There is
the necessary sulphur spring at the
other side of the lake, and the usual
iron spring NOS far from that and
there are no mosquitoes-not to speak
of. They never trouble US. Really
it would seem that nature had Law.
ished all her charms, or something of
the kind. Indeed SO far as am able
to tell and l know am, we stand In
need of only two things. We need q
legend and q Lovers Leap.
Mukwanago pondered long and
deep, and at length called his daugh-
ter up to him.
''Pride-Of-my-heart," said he-for
sometimes he called her Pride-of-my-
heart, and sometimes Susan-"Pride
of my heart, We are shy a legend,
and we got to have it. This lake
will new or 90 until we have q name
for 1t, and Lovers Leap and o le-
gend. Haven't you got a lover or
wo lying around in the woods here?
Pride-of-my-hesrt-or perhaps we
may call her just Pride for short, the
more especially because pride goes
before fall and where there's lovers
leap there must be fall of course
Pride reluctantly admitted that faith
er's surmlses were correct.
Then daughter, said Mukwanago,
we are saved. I wish that you and
your Sunday lover would plea Sc
COUP to the top of the bluff
on tn east side of the lake and leap
offlnt the water. You might chant
q song, or something or other, but I'll
fix up the legend part. It'll be the
making of the place.
Pshaw, pa, said Pride. Me Jump
off that place! You're only blut1ne!
I'm not Pm in dead earnest, so
help me! said Mukwanago. And if
you wont jump at sunset tonight
you'll have TO settle with your parent,
now you hear me!
Very well, said Pride firmly. ]
don't jump, now you hear me. It's
too blamed rocky on that point, and
more than 100 feet above the water
You must be crazy.
Then you refuse? said Mukwan-
ago, bitterly.
do, pa, said Pride. If you want
any legend you'll have to do the jun
ping yourself. AS for me Jump the
camp tonight.
So pride and her Sunday lover pack
ed their canoe and went north, up in
to the Wolf River country that night
and were never heard OF any more
They crossed the lake to the outlet
went down the creek to the Fox Ri.
yer and assembled that stream at abou
10 O'Clock in the evening. Muck.
wanago often pointed out to the older
citizens of this country the place
where the lovers jumped the camp
and even tried to evolve from tn,
plain story of their boat ride down t
the Fox and legend of a phantom In
dian maiden and a phantom canoe
His efforts met with some success
and to-day the lake which is really {
beautiful one is known as phantom
Lake, instead of Stockman Lake, a.
it is mspped, though certain skeptici
say there never was any phantom
about it except little cholera infap
tum on the west side where the child
rem Of camping party got into
watermelon patch.