The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-01-12
THE BOYS PLAYED mum
Little Tommy Went to the Country
and Was Entertained by
Johnny.
Tommy Was Agent, Johnny Chief,
and Uncle Ben the Great
Father.
Tho Dextrous Application Of n Large
Thick Single 1moiled an Outbreak
~ and Spoiled the Fun.
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cheerful companionship for Ben's younget
boy. Johnny. His rustic relations receive
Tommy kindly. little Johnny showed hi
all the sights of the farm, and taught hir
many innocent games.
On the afternoon Of the second day tn
v boys stood in the lee of the barn throw
ing snowballs at Uncle B%eniamin's hens.
was a very chilly afternoon, especially TO
the hens. Suddenly little Tommy OK
claimed: Lets play Indian"
Bully" said little Johnny. land I'll bt
the great chief of the Sioux, Young-M Man
Observation-Disclosures
Tommy offered no objection. and the sim
pie country lad thought it was very kind O
his cousin to thus yield up the principn
role without protest. He quickly arme'
himself with wooden tomahawk. got som
red ochre for war paint, levied on the roos
ter for feathers, and made a scalping knit
out of the handle Of n tin dipper, afte
which he said: "Whoop! Let the pale fac'
beware, for Observation-Disclosures f-Rat
Poison is on the war path"
Ill be the agent" SAID Tommy, "nnt
you must call me in the Indian tongue Fat
"We'l play that this is the reservation
said Johnny, pointing to a sunny spot;''it's
good snowballin' here. which will be handy
when ] get ready to make on attack on the
agency"
is on the other side. This is the agency"
Then be led Johnny to the northeast corner
of the barn where it was colder than Siberia
and made him sit dow OH the bottom of a
bucket which was frozen into the ground.
The wintry wine whistled through little
Johnny's hair and he remarked: 'Say. if
kls. -, -1,r ~ bn Ata ,nooruinN ttarafu
be an attack on the agency in about a quar-
ter of a minute"
"1Oh that's all right replied Fat-Man-
With Boodle-in His Clothes, 1T is the duty
of the government to furnish blankets for
the redskins"
So little Tommy went into the barn and
got two blankets, n fine large one for him.
self, and a thin one, full of holes, for the
poor Injur. Northumberland, ETC.,
kicked very hard at this distributions; and
he wound up with a loud %war-whoop and
the announcement hat an attack on the
agency was about to begin. But when he
would have arisen to execute vengeance, he
discovered that he was immovably attached
to the bucket. He was frozen upon the
reservation.
When little Tommy perceived this condi-
ton of affairs, he at once pointed out thu
fact that it was all in the game. He be
lieved in playing games right down to cold
oAAA hO hGA cav "a q III
similar but more extensive misfortunes had
happened on the boundless prairies. Then
Tommy made up a large quantity of hard
snowballs and played that he was u cori.
pany of cavalry attacking an Indian
village. Observation-Disclosures Rat
Poison hurled his tomahawk, but as he
could not 90 to get it again and the attack
ing force would not come within reach OF
his scalpip2 knife, he was thereafter de-
fenseless, a9d wass massacred several times,
Little Tor my taught him how to sing the
death song, and insisted upon his bearing
torture without tears. "
Then little Tommy shrewdly suggested n
change in the game.
Don't the agency furnish the Injuns
with rations?" he asked. Fat-Man-W With.
Boodle-in- is-Clothes admitted that there
were treaties to that effect.
well. you go in and get ma to give us
some gingerbread" said JOHNNY. .'T'd do
it myself if 1 wasn't frozen to this blamed
bucket"
SO little Tommy went into the house and
explained to little Johnny's mother the ma
ture OF the game they were playing. On
behalf of the poor Indian who was Obliged
TO pitch his wigwam on the northeast corner
OF the barn be begged n piece of ginger
bread. AS for himself he did not care for
gingerbread. 1t made his stomach ache.
But Young-N Not-Afraid- Poison
was hungry for it.
Ihereupon Tomny's aunt broke off O.
large piece of gingerbread from a great
brown sheet that was cooling III the wood
shed, and she remarked that it was very dis
interested Of Tommy to intercede for his
conslh: AS Tommy himself did not like
gingerbread he might have a raspberry tart,
Tommy got outside of the tart and then
TOOK the gingerbread to the reservation.
Johnny was still sitting on the bucket and
he seemed likely to remain there till the
January thAw AGf in Hin Ln.,, tu,.lx.I
together with the cold and he ives endeey
oring to arrange his torn blanket with the
holes all on the lee side. so that there
wouldn't be SO much draught through it.
when he saw the smoking piece of ginger
Dreao, tears OF rapturous anticipation
washed guliies IN his war paint.
go get some warm water and nour mn
the bottom of this bucket said he, land
the great chief will come to the agency 70.
his rations."
ut will not be necessary said the agent
Let the red man hunt the buffalo ant
coyote. In agent will take care of tn,
%ratiOns."
Then he divided the gingerbread into ty,
equal parts, one of which he bit with tn,
right side of his mouth and the other will
his left.
When does the great chief come in?'
asked ioung-Man-Not-Afrai Of Rat Poi
He doesn't come in," retorted the pal
face; "he stays on the reservation
The spectacle of the vanishing ginger
bread was too much for little johnny. II,
had net realized before how hunQryh he WAS
bat now every time the agent took p bite
tne red man OF the prairie felt the empti
ness within him growing vaster. When h
shlgered the front Of his body flame,
against his spine like the fo~re-course of
ship In a calm roll. 1t was unbsarab,e
with wild war whoop he spranp to hi;
feet, leaving a liberal square OF his tronser
In the ICY grasp of the bucket, aud c,aspin,
his scalping knife with deadly ferocity. h
bounded upon the unsuspecting agent. til
battle was sharp, but victory quickl,
perched upon the STANDARD of the Red Mar
IN about a minute the agent lay OH his bach
In the wet snow, and Young-Man-Not
Misunderstanding -His-Pantaloons sat as
trlde OF him, trying to saw off q handful q
halr with the tin scalping knife.
IF fat-Man-M ith-His- Mouth-FnII-o'
gingerbread desires to save his hair" sal.
the savage, let him make restitution
GIVE up that gingerbread or I'll saw yor
head off ~
Under tie circumstances, Fat Nan had II
choice. He gave up the gingerbread. an
was afterwards tied to the hitcbing no,
where an Imaginary fire was built aronn
him. and he was subjected to various to-
lures, some of which were not So magma,
as the fire. 1t was his turn to sing II
death song. and he did it SO Justify tbs
Uncle benjamin heard him and came
the rescue. The situation quickly change
in favor of the pale face. Uncle Be
took tine offender back to the rese
Walton, and having found a large thi,
single. he applied it in a manner to mai