The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-06-22

With nearly half worm.
He nearly walked a dozen miles,
He very nearly hit
He nearly climbed to 1t.
Now II he nearly did so much
When young, 1t seems to me
What wonderful clever man
He'll nearly grow to be.
-Ett dy Wetherald in Youths Compan-
Teddy jones' New Game.
Teddy Jones had been reading books
They were not school books, nor vet were
they books that came from the Sunday
school library, but they were some dread
full paper-covered things that Dan Wa
tors, the hired man, kept in his loft over
the Kitchen.
Teddy ought not to have read these
books. In fact, Dan did not know that
he had borrowed them. They were books
that dealt with all sorts of dreadful tales
of Indians and cowboys. They fired Tod
dy's ambition. and he, too, determined to
become an Indian, or, failing in that,
cowboy at any rate.
Dick he said to his chum, I've got
an idea of Il new game"
Dick eyed Teddy obviously. Somehow
Toddy's ideas always got everybody who
meddled with them into trouble.
'What kind of Il game is it?' he asked.
"Well," said Teddy, standing with his
feet very far apart and his hands i'll his
pockets, I'm an Indian, you're cow
boy Louie =! Hi1bs Can be s iI;, ..vo,
aren't going to let that little silly into
the game, are you!
why not?' asked Teddy coldly. BE
sides, | believe l am the one who is max
ing up this game, anyway, and If l choose
to have girls in it, it is because we have
got to have girls in it,
Dick became silent, but turned up his
little nose as far as he could just to
whole matter. But Teddy didn't nina u
small thing like that. He went on Sc
renely, quite unconscious of Dicks dis
approval.
And, as l was saying, Louie Hibbs can
be squaw, and Fannie Sanders mus
tang.that's about all s.! good for: -; -,
"Why, mustang is-it's sort of wild
horse that grows out on the prairies, and
the cowboys lasso them
whats 'lasso'?" asked Dick again.
But this time Teddy refused to answer.
He only smiled contemptuousy: . -,
The party was soon formed. 1t con-
sisted Of Fannie, Louie. the two Rodgers
boys, Louie's sister Allie, Dick and Tod
dy. Louie Hibbs carried her wax doll
which her uncle Harry had just given
her.
Teddy led the procession to the clnmp
ground and stood them up in line.
Now he said, this is an Indian
camp. Ned Rodgers and l are Indians,
and Louie, here, is an Indian squaw;;'
20. or shouted Louie. 'No, Teddy
Jones, won't be an Indian squaw. No,
won't, and you can't make me-
and cry, Louie Hibbs. If that amt just
like you to spoil all the fun
Teddy frowned at him. You shut up,
Dick; she don't have to be Il sQuaw If
she don't want to. Louie, you can be q
white lady captured by the Indians, and
Allie and Fannie can be squaws.'
As Allie and Fannie were quite willing
little Louie dried her tears and quite will
ingly consented to be white captive.
'Now, them" said Teddy, Dick, you
an Tom are cowboys, an you must come
rushing up and save the white captives
just as we are going to put them to
20, o." shouted Louie again. 81 won't
4
And then even the gentle Teddy be-
came stern with her.
Louie he said, will you please keep
quiet? This is only play. and you mustn't
be such baby
care you sure it's only play?' asked
Louie. "Quite sure, Toddy?'
"of course. Now don't say anything
Dick and Tom Rodgers were instructed
to herd imaginary cattle OH the plains
| and this they did with vim, circling
| about and shouting at a great rate.
In the meantime the Indian camp was
a very busy place. Teddy made tent
from some boughs and the boys coats,
| and the sQuaws were told to sit OH the
| was bound, half tearfully, to one tree,
and her child 1.-THE new wax dolD was
bound to another. Teddy and Ned Rodg-
ers danced about them, screeching at the
! top Of their voices and brandishing sticks
Of wood which they pretended were tom
Hi, hi" screamed Teddy ("why
don't you all yell?') Then the squaws
joined in, and the captive was ordered
to scream. This was the one thing Louie
| was quite willing to do. The piercing
| shrieks were signal for the cowboys tc
come to the rescue, and they came with
| grand rush that was most inspiring
They promptly dispatched the Indians
| and their squaws, and the captives were
| at liberty:
After the game had been played fol
| several times Louie got SO that she die
not mind being a captive at all, and ell
tered into the spirit of the thing, as she
should have done at first.
| But this was not all of Toddy's new
| idea.
Now he said, "wc'll all be Indians
| and have a regular war dance. Louie's
doll can be the VICTIM
| 80 they left Louie's new dolly tied tt
her tree, and they all got sticks anc
danced around her, until, l am sure, tn,
dolls nerves were quite upset with won
derlng what was going 10 happen to her
! eli, hiw yelled To-day.
! Hi: hi!' echoed Louie.
Il Hi! hi! squealed the rest of them
and they had a fine time with the new
game. But, like all of Toddy's games
delightful as they were in the beginning
he was sure to spoil them before he go1
through. FL r.
Now" he said, I've ought to have
What's that ~ asked the Indians in a
breath. 5 :.
ooh, said Teddy, in the superior tone
Of knowing it all, IF were really, truly
ooh, we are, We arev' they all shout;
ed, and for the first time they really be
ieved they Were. (, ss. zzsss
Teddy was somewhat mixed as to his
ideas regarding Indian sacrifices, hut he
began to feel the necessity Of having a
real hrc in this game Of Indians, and
that was the only thing that suggested
itself to his ready mind, s !5s#> s +