Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-07-29

boot, forgave him with all their
+, hearts
Others had seen his evil deed, and
the news of it went speedily to his
father, SO that Snider was bruised
and battered little imp when his fa-
ther sent him supperless to bed that
night. He resented his punishment
with bitterness Of spirit, reasoning
that, having made peace with the
immigrants, outside parties had no
right to disturb the statu quo.
His fathers punishment made it
hard for Snider to sleep, and, being a
queer, motherless little fellow, he lay
upon his pillow aud thought of the
cool waters of the river and the
smoky tepees where the Indians
were asleep, and how they, at least,
always received him gladly. Then
he rose up and stole out of the house,
after filling his pockets with biscuits
he was going to be an Indian.
The ours did not bark at Snider as
he approached, but shifted his pock-
cts and wagged their absurd and
damaged tails. Luckily for Snider
Alkali was asleep and her daughter
awake.
1t would be pleasant to describe
Red Leaf as Pocahontas Minnehaha,
Wenona and other Indian maidens
have been described by literary peo-
pie who have employed terra Gotta
or bronze models; but Red Leaf,
alas was a genuine Indian girl,
with all the mental and physical
characteristics of her race AS she
emerged from her mothers tepee, on
observing the face of Snider peering
in, would be as good opportunity to
describe her as any likely to DO OBJ
tanned. Her hair was long, black
and coarse, and at the part was
streak of yellow pigment.
This hair hung down over her
swarthy and not always clean cheeks
in such way as to make her fore
head a tolerably correct triangle.
Her eyes were almond shaped and
wonderfully dark and deep, with a
trace of natural ferocity about them
that made a stranger look second
time before he remembered with a
shudder that they were made to look
upon the tortures that the savage
heart below might devise. Her mouth
was large, but the handsome white
teeth within made it a rather pleas
ant feature. Like all growing chill
dren, her shoulders, arms and body
were angular and bony. Her raj
ment seldom parted with by night
or by day until it fell from her per-
son piecemeal, consisted of single
calico garment, "toggled" together
as only squaws know how to do
dressmaling, torn and mended in
many places torn and unmended in
many others. Shoes she had none;
headgear she would have despised
The personal beauty of Snider was
not of character to arouse jealousy
or comment in O mixed collection of
white people, though it was conspicu-
Gus in the admiration of the red
Itemized it would invoice as fol
loweth: A magnificent supply of
particularly brilliant freckles, begin
ming in the neighborhood of his ears
and becoming by far too numerous
to mention as they approached his
nose The Indian children observed
with envious admiration that where
as they could apply yellow and blue
pigments to their faces and thus be
handsome as summer dawn until
dirt OF accident obliterated the work
of art, here was favored mortal
who wore his coloring matter under
the skin and could even wash with
out injury to his toilet.
The nose of Snider, where the
freckles did most congregate, is
worthy of extended notice. 1t was
of an irregular type sort of COM
pound comminuted fracture of all
the different styles of nose worn by
the Aryan races both before and
since their earliest migration. His
raiment was pair of jeans trousers.
with one 'gallus," and q hickory
shirt, surmounted with hat such as
only reckless and sunny disposition
could enable any one to wear. His
temperament was sunny or warlike,
as occasion demanded, as is apt to be
the case with a child thrown largely
upon his resources for diversion.
But nature had been cruel i'll giving
him a tender heart and sensitive
soul, both Of which defects he was
studious to conceal as an ancient
knight would have covered up
weak spot in his armor.
Removing little coal from the
smoldering fire Red Leaf carried it a
short distance from her mothers
vicinity and soon had little council
fire for herself and Snider established.
AS part of the arrangement Snider
threw from his pocket a biscuit and
it was eagerly seized by the girl, who
was in the normal Indian condition
of ravenous hunger.
After a reasonable poriod of 81
lence Snider remarked, I've come
to be an Indian, Red Leaf, and live
with you always"
You can't, was the instantaneous
answer, delivered without sign of in
terest one way or another, Poor
Sniderl Here was his death SEN
tence-here the faithful wound of his
friend. Am l so bad the Injuns
won't have met" he almost sobbed.
''The hairy man would find you
and take you back to his lodge"
Snider's sire had a Brobdingnagian
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