The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-21
Stories of on Inland State.

1
You know" she said. 81 reckoned that
those Indian women were pretty immoral
set.'
| Misty Dawn was beginning a defense OF
| the Indian women when
Crash,
The house trembled. The few stone dishes
OF shelf danced and cloud of dust filed
| the room.
Misty Dawn arose in alarm
''Oh, don't mind him. said Mrs. Sweeney,
that's Snoogles.'
| 81 don't see how you ever kept so clean
among EN- Mrs. Sweeney went on. They
are the dirtiest people I ever saw any
where"
1.-THE full-bloods may be-"
"Weu I meant the full-bloods. Do you
know when Pete Sweeney brought me
down here, L was the biggest goose IN sew
enteen states. Ny mind was just full OF
Indians day and night and 1 would faint
clean away at a red blanket hanging on a
close-line. You know 1 thought they were
all full-bloods and scalpers. Pete looked
1t my head and told me 1 had a double
crown scalp and that was worth double
and they'd be after me the first thing
WELL last winter she continued after
pausing for breath 81 was sleeping away
there il that bed, dreaming of Indians and
tomahawks, when suddenly I awohe and
as sure as you're sitting there, knife was
cleaving into my scalp in a round circle.
1 tried TO scream but the Indians hand
was oyer my mouth ="
Crash! The house shook again.
Dent mind him." explained Mrs Swee-
ney. That's Snoogles. well, my arms
were bound down to my side and the red
devil had hold Of my hair pulling away and
the blood was just a-trickling down on my
forehead so 1 thought I was gone forever.
1 tried to kick Pete but 1 knew they had
scalped him and he was laying on the
floor bleeding"
We'll. pretty soon I was released and
then somebody 1t a light. 1t was Pete.
He just laid down on the floor and rolled
over and over, screaming with laughter.
"Pete,' says I, What do you mean?'
feeling my scalp kind OF foolish Ike.
but he only laughed. / knew MY hair
was all there and he had slipped up on me
in my sleep and taken a chunk Of ice and
run It around my hair and then pourned
water on my head with a sponge. That's
what made me think it was blood. Well
Crash! Again the house trembled and the
dishes danced.
most every day. We have regular Fourth
of July here all the time. Well 1 up and
says:
Pete, what do you mean"
well. says he. Minnie You've been a
hankering and a hankering to be scalped
so much that was IN duty bound to see
u-he adx,
was so close at hand. So I scalped ye'
You did?' said L
ct did, he said. And you needn't flare
up said he.
Needn't flare up says L Wen sea
says !.
with that up and out of that bed in a
fifty and caught billet of wood and sail
ed into him. He was drinking some and
he tore the clothes all off me and ="
Crash!
Its Just snoogles. That's an. Wen I
was plumb naked Pete kind Of backed
out and leered at me and said:
Minnie. You've got the form Of
Venus
Then I went for him with that billet
again. He got mad and struck me and
that was the only time I was ever scalped"
She pause while and then continued:
Pete Sweerey's a good enough man. but
he's got to be subdued. And I subdue him,
too, when take the notion"
Misty Dawn had not heard the story dis
tinctly. She felt an apprehension that the
roof of the sod house would soon fall In
upon them.
ooh, you needn't mind snoogles. You
stay here and you'll get used to him.
She went to the window and looked out
"Snoogles Is flying the white flag again."
she said 'I wonder what the old duffer
wants now"
She took white towel and hung It out
the window and said:
Pretty soon he'll send that kid over,
with his demands for US TO get of the
claim and for something else. He's the
queerest one I ever met
She had scarcely finished when there was
a tmid rap at the door.
Mrs. Sweeney opened it.
Misty Dawn saw a very small boy dressed
as she had never seen a boy dressed before,
His trousers were tight-fftting and har.ng
at the bottom OF the trouser-legs His
jacket was short and he wore q queer
shaped hat from which two ends of a rib
bon tapped. He said timidly:
Captain Noogles presents his compI-
ments to Mrs. Sweeney and makes his a6th
formal demand, as N such cases made and
provided that the said Pete Sweeney and
heirs assigns and issue move from the said
claim forthwith and without delay
''Scat"' said Mrs. Sweeney. "Whatd he
put up the white flag for?'
Captain Noogles also presents his COM
pEmeuts," said the lad, land requests the
loan of a pint Of sugar.
I'm, Just as / thought said Mrs.
Sweeney. Come in"
Misty Dawn had never seen such a pref
~ boy. She was drawn instinctively 10
him. She went up to him and patted him
on me cheek while Mrs. Sweeney got The
sugar.
Are you Turk" he asked fearlessly.
NO" she said smiling and curious.
He looked UP at the beautiful woman |
All, He was sure she was a Turk, one |
Of the beautiful women Captain Snoogles |
lad stolen from the Sultan's harem while |
he was cruising Whereabouts. He knew the |
Captains story by heart The Captain had |
met the beautiful woman on the streets of |
There, he said, the women |
al wore wells over their faces. When this |
woman saw the Captain she followed hun /
and when she was close by she dropped her |
veil for moment TO show the Captain she |
liked him. Then he followed her. And |
pretty soon she dropped him note.
And where did she write it?" the boy |
had asked.
''Oh, she dropped in to bazaar. which Is
Turkish for store"
When she had dropped him the note he /
read II and found II ted him in wha: part |
II the harsm she slept.
But could you read Turkish" the boy |
had asked.