The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-06-19
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.
How an Indian Brave Completely Non
plused Yale Professor.

How an Indian Brave Completely Nom
pIused Yale Professor.
Professor Marsh's investigations of
extinct animals were conducted year aft
er year in sections Of the far west which
had not been explored by white men.
He had many adventures while he was
discovering his 200 species Of fossil YER
tebrates, but perhaps the most interest
ing was an encounter with an Indian
warrior in the Bad Lands.
The professor, while searching one
day for his gigantic six horned mann
mails, cretaceous birds and precious pter
odactyls, was separated from the other
members of the expedition. He was so
busily intent upon his scientific ocoupa
ton that he did not hear the stealthy
approach of a solitary horseman. 1t was
an Indian buck on the warpath in full
paint and feather.
The professor is a man of high cour-
age, but he involuntarily found himself
yearning for the quiet and security Of
his college classroom at Yale when he
was suddenly confronted by this star
thing apparition. His companions were
not within call He was completely at
the mercy Of the savage.
The Indian coolly dismounted from
his pony, and stood motionless before
him, resplendent in paint and with
plumes waving. Erect sinewy and dig
nifed, ne was a splendid specimen of a
fighting buck. 1t was the most uncom-
Portable moment which the professor
had ever known.
Glow" said the professor timorous
ly when the silence had become intol-
cradle.
''Is this Professor Marsh?" asked the
Indian in clear cut English.
Eyes, " answered the professor, COM
pletely taken aback by the unexpected
Identification.
"Of Yale college?' continued the In
dian briskly.
1.-The same, !" confessed the professor.
How is Professor Hadley?" asked
the Indian without a moments delay.
The naturalist was almost speech
less. To be suddenly interrupted in his
scientific labors by buck in warpaint
and feathers was sufficiently startling.
To have the warrior, in place Of scalp
ing him, call him BY name and then
ask sympathetically for a college asso-
ciate seemed nothing less than a mir
acle. The professor was fairly petrified
with establishment
But it was miracle that was easily
explained. The Indian had been sent
east during boyhood to be educated and
had been befriended and instructed by
Professor Hadley's father. When his
education was completed he had parted
pleasantly from the Hadley household
and had returned to his tribe in the res
ervation.
Instead of profiting by his lessons and
experiences of civilization, he had grad
ually been overpowered by tribal pride,
aboriginal instincts and the irresistible
destinations Of wild life and warpaint.
He had disappointed the expectations of
the missionaries by reverting to savage
conditions.
Nevertheless he paid civilization the
compliment of respecting academic as
sociations He did not scalp Professor
Marsh but sat down on the rocks and
had pleasant chat with him. He even
made an attempt to interest himself in
some Of the bones which the naturalist
had exhumed And when he remounted
his pony he sent CHS kindest regards to
the Hadleys. Youths Companion.