The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1895-01-17

burned brick. Our old guide handled
1t tenderly as he knocked the ashes
out of its wide bowl, carved in the
likeness of a bson's head.
Fill up again, Thad," said I, land
while we smoke tell us the story of
that pipe. Come, you've promised it
often enough"
A smile lit up the ragged, weather
scanned face of the old trapper as he
gazed long and musingly at the short
pipe he held in his hand, and in the
play of his features one might have
read tales of daring and prowess, and
of cunning and strategy as subtle as
that of the willy Sioux whose right of
possession to the great prairies of the
northwest old Thad cambridge was
one of the first to dispute.
ut amt no Injun pipe" he began,
though it is made of pipestone same
as the whites found in use by all the
tribes of the nor'west when they first
came among IN, and low was about
the first white man to dig the stone
and make pipe of this kind for him
self Common as were these pipes
among the lnjuns, there is only one
spot in all the country where the soft,
red stone they're made of is to be
found 1t was by the merest accident
that happened to stumble upon the
quarry, and bigger accident yet that
my scalp didn't pay for the find. 1t
was when l was trappin' up on the
headwaters of the Des Moines one
spring, early in the 'forties. I'd gone
farther up into that lake and prairie
region than I'd ever been before, and
taken as prime lot of beaver and OF
ter as ever a cheatin' trader beat an
honest trapper out of. 1 hadn't seen
an Injun on the prairies all that
spring, nor didn't expect to, though
that amt sayIn' that camped in plain
sight and left an open trail wherever
/ went In1uns are like the bad deeds
a man has done and tried to cover up;
they're always turnin' UP when. you
least expect 'em, and knew the crit
ters too well for that.
II struck out to tho northeast from
my camp one mornin' intendin' to cir
Gle round to the north and west to
look at some ponds and lakes that l
couldn't well get at with my canoe.
I'd travelled until about noon, when |
eor uch soinethin ohaV cihhBeu iny
plans mighty sudden, can tell you. l
WASH lookln Tor lnJun sign, when all
at once l stepped smack into plain
trail leadin' toward my camp, dozen
miles or more off to the south. To say
| was surprised wouldn't be putin it
half strong enough. AT least a dozen
ponies had passed that way but few
days before, and what puzzled me more
tnan any lining else was the iact tnat
.ne eraii iooKeu DIS IL IL huo oeen useo
Ior years. l knew thefe was Dig
oiouH Vliage up 10 the nor6h on Dig
stone iake' put Where TINS trall could
ieao 'o Una. l Nnu never sVrucN III De
'ore scoulin All INC country 10 Ole
sou'h as l zone lor mon ths' was more
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