The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-02-03

day he should succeed in digging one
out though he never accomplished
that feat In his daily walks through
the woods with his mistress, there
were certain well-known retreats of
the willy foe that he never passed
without call. One of these was at
the further side of n pasture that bor-
dered the woods, where grazed herd
of cows. Whenever the walk led that
way Balder slipped under the fence.
crossed the field and made his visit to
the woodchuck, shifting eagerly at the
hole, and throwing out peck or so OF
earth every time.
There were forty or fifty cows in
the field, who evidently had their
opinion Of dogs, and one afternoon
when he passed through they all
stopped grazing and fixed their eyes
upon him. He spent his usual five
minutes there, and started back. The
cattle. meanwhile, had plainly been
considering his case, and when he
came along on his usual trot, paying
no attention to them, they arrived at
a decision. One of them, who had not
a vestige of a horn with which to fight,
took the lead, lowered his head and
started directly for him. Instantly
the whole drove. with one accord,
lowered their heads and started on a
run in the same direction.
The dog understood although he did
not seem to look at them. He dis.
dained to run, but he quickened his
trot little, and just little more till
the instant they were upon him he
slipped nder the fence where he had
gone in. Once outside he stopped
and looked back at them in silence,
then glanced at his mistress with an
expressive wag of the tail, which said
as plain as words: wasn't that
joker"
This passion for hunting was such
that he would attack any animal he
met, from a mouse to grizzly bear,
and one unlucky day he found in the
edge of the woods porcupine, and
without hesitation flew at him. In
few moments the household, which
was not far off, was startled by fearful
cries, with barking and signs of war
fare, and man was dispatched to see
what was the matter. He rescued the
wild,beast, (Which he had sense enough
to know was a friend of tie farmer).
and the dog came limping home with
not only his forepaws, but his mouth
full of sharp quilts. His tongue and
the roof of his mouth were completely
covered, and they hung from his
mouth like fringe. OF course he was
nearly wild, paving his mouth and
rolling on the ground in his pain
Sunny Home.
Recollections of an Educated Sioux.
Our wanderings from place to place
afforded us many pleasant experiences
as well as many hardships and mis-
fortunes. We had several narrow es-
capes from death. There were times
of plenty and times of scarcity. There
were seasons of happiness and seasons
of sadness In savage lifo the early
spring is the most trying time, and
almost all the famines occurred at
this period of the year.
The Indians are patient and clan
nish people; their love for one an
other is stronger than that OF any
civilized people l know. If this were
not so, believe there would have been
tribes of cannibals among them. White
people have been known to kill and
eat their companions in preference to
starving; but Indians In
times of famine the adults often de-
MED themselves fair mea&--ip order
to make the food last as long as posi-
BILE for the children, who were not
able to bear hunger as well as the old.
AS people they can GO without food
longer than any other nation.
once passed through one of tn ese
card springs when we had nothing to
eat for several days. l well remem.
Der the six small birds which consti-
tuted the breakfast for six families
one morning; and then we had no
dinner or supper to follow it. What
relief that was to mccullough I
had only small wing of small bird
for my share! Soon after this, we
came to n region where buffaloes were
plenty, and we soon forgot all the suf-
fering we had just gone through.
ouCh was Vic luulduS Wllu lie!
When game was plenty and the sun
shone graciously upon them they for
got the bitter experiences of the
winter before. Little preparation was
made for the future. They are chill
dren of Nature and occasionally she
whips them with the lashes of expe-
rience; yet they are forgetful an d
careless Much of their suffering
might have been prevented by a little
calculation. During the summer,
when nature was at her best and pro-
vided abundantly for the savage, it
seemed to me that no life was happier
than his! Food was frce--lodging
free-everything free! All were alike
rich in the summer; and, again, all
were alike poor in the winter and
early spring. Their diseases were
fewer, and were not so destructive as
now, and the Indians health was gen.
orally good--St Nicholas.
Superior Wisdom.
William L., aged five, is his little
sisters senior by year. but inagines
himself at least twenty in added wis