The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-05-02

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present city Of Wichita, somewhere
near tho soap works, and was laid out
in town lots even into the bed OF the
sea.
They were brown skinned, beardless,
and with hair black as the alluvial soil
and stiff as the whiskers of the giant
post tertiary leopard.
Their numbers had brought about
many improvements in the mode of liv-
ing, such as wearing loin cloths of ma
tive grasses and the hanging Of shells
from the ear and nose.
For generations the fashion Of flatten-
ing the forehead had prevailed.
Chug had small hands and feet, was
hairy as a cave lion and wore whiskers,
and besides his head was not fattened.
Such a monstrosity could not be per.
mitted to live.
The natural curiosity Of the Tushe-
tushes, however, impelled them to nurse
Chug to life to see what he was like
| when well.
The job of nursing Chug fell to Sun
bird, the only daughter of the old chief.
She marve1ed at the brawny proper
tons Of the strange voyager.
She whiled away the long hours by
plating his whiskers and grooming his
brown fur until he shone like q blooded
carriage horse.
Sunbird was young and impressiona-
BILE.
She had been wooed by every youth
Of the clan, had listened for awhile, and
then repulsed every man of them.
No woman of the tribe was SO beauti.
fully shaped as Sunbird, nor was there
SO smart q flathead among the Tushe-
tushes.
She had a Trilby foot and the shout.
ders of a Lillian Russell.
Her old father loved her devotedly,
still he chided her.
"You are getting much too gay for the
tribe, my precious darling" he would
say in his blunt, rough way.
During Chug's convalescence his days
were sweet with newness.
Instead of bullet headed Spat-S pat,
| covered with fur like a megatherium,
here was a creature with a head like a
triangle, and with a graceful figure,
smooth and soft to the touch, and the
broiled steak of post tertiary reindeer
was charming to his palate.
The vocabulary of the language of
Chug and Sunbird contained but 600
words and nurse and Invalid could soon
converse.
So happy was Chug that he hated to
tell the story of the passion Which filled
his heart, and he reserved it from day
to day.
But his stalwart form trembled with
emotion as Sunbird's hand gently
smoothed the fur of his broad shoulders.
When Sunbird's father comprehended
the trend of affairs he did not CRATE his
teeth because, as a matter Of fact, ne
was q fish eater and toothless.
But he spoke his mind.
'sCome-the jig is up!" he shouted,
and dragged Chug to the place Of execu-
| ton.
This denouement astonished Chug so
much that he was pinioned by withes
of elastic bush before he could make up
his mind to resist.
The executioner brandished a pom
derous dinotherium tusk, when Sunbird
| dashed through the throng of Tushe-
tushes and wrested it from him.
"Stand b-a-c-kl' she shrieked, with
the furious mien of a post tertiary saber
toothed tigress robbed of her cubs.
II love him, and if he dies I die
with him!' cried Sunbird as the tribes
men wavered before her as before the
awful presence of a so foot high ptero'
dactyl.
"What! that hairy animal with smal'
hands and feet and little round head
that Populist freak!' yelled the ole
chief.
Il love him because he is so different
from other men, papa. He is SO per
fectly unconventional" replied Sun
bird.
THAT'S all right" said old Tushe
tushe as he released Chug and blessed
his children. 1T will be my turn t.
laugh when you want a divorce, youn,
woman! Remember that Chicago i
only 30, 900 years hence!'
But Chug eventually became chief o
the tribe, and through his example tn
people became exceedingly mild man
) nered and took to whisker raising
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