The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1894-05-23
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WEDNESDAY. MAY %. 1894.
AN UNEXPECTED MEETING.
How an Indian Brave Completely MOI
plused a Yale Professor.

How an Indian Brave Completely Nom
plused 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 pier
odactyls, was separated from the other
members of the expedition. He was SO
busily intent upon his scientific occupa-
ton that he did not hear the stealthy
approach of solitary horseman. 1t was
an Indian buck on the warpath in full
paint and feather.
The professor is 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
Ting 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
nified, he was splendid specimen Of
fighting buck. 1t was the most uncom-
Portable moment which the professor
had ever known.
''How?' said the professor timorous-
" when the silence had become intol-
cradle.
''Is this Professor Marsh?" asked the
Indian in clear cut English.
Yes" 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 alphabetically for college asso-
ciate seemed nothing less than 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 proiting 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
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some of the bones which the naturalist
had exhumed. And when he remounted
his pony he sent "his kindest regards to
the Hadleys "-Youth's Companion.