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

He nearly killed rattlesnake,
He nearly felt is squirm,
lie nearly caught the biggest fish
With nearly half worm.
He nearly walked a dozen miles,
He very nearly hit
The eagles nest he nearly found;
He nearly climbed to 1t.
Now If he nearly did so much
When young, it seems to me
What a wonderful clever man
He'll nearly grow to be.
-Ethelwyn Wetherald in Youths Compan-
ion.
Teddy jones' New Game.
Teddy Jones had been reading books
They were not school books, nor yet 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, a
cowboy at any rate.
an idea of a new game
Dick eyed Teddy obviously. Somehow
Toddy's IDEAS always got everybody who
meddled with them into trouble.
what kind of a game is it, he asked.
''Well," said Teddy, standing with his
feet very far apart and his hands in his
pockets, I'm an Indian, you're a cow
"Pshaw!" interrupted Dick. You
aren't going to let that little silly into
the game, are your
why not?' asked Teddy coldly. Be
sides, believe | 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 nos as far as he could Just to
whole matter. But Teddy didn't mind II
small thing like that. He went on Sc
renely, quite unconscious OF Dicks dis
approval.
And, as I was saying, Louie Hibbs can
be squaw, and Fannie Sanders a mus
tang-that's about all she's good for
Whats mustang?'. demanded Dick
why, IL mustang is-it's sort of wild
horse that grows out on the prairles, and
| the cowboys lasso Them
whats 'lasso'?' asked Dick again.
But this time Teddy refused to answer
lie Only Sllllell COllteluptuOuHIt'
| Come on" he said, lets get the 9th
! ers and play the new game
The party was soon formed. 1t con
| sisted of Fannie, Louie. the two Rodgers
BOYS, Louies sister Allie, Dick and Tod
dy. Louie Hibbs carried her Wax dol
which her uncle Harry had just giver
her.
Teddy led the procession to the clnml
of trees that the children used for a play
ground and stood them up in line:
Now he said, this is an Indiar
camp. Ned Rodgers and l are Indians
and Louie, here, is an Indian squaw.'
20, Or shouted Louie. NO, Todd,
Jones, won't be an Indian squaw. No
I won't. and YOU can't make me-
and cry, Louie Hibbs. If that amt jus
like you to spoil all the fun
| Teddy frowned at him. You shut up
| Dick: she don't have to be a sQuaW i
she don't want to. Louie, you can be ;
white lady captured by the Indians ant
Allie and Fannie can be squaws.'
As Allie and Fannie were quite willins
little Louie dried her tears and quite will
ingly consented to be a white captive.
"Now, then,'' said Teddy, Dick, 70,
| an Tom are cowboys, an you must conn
rushing up and save the white captive
| just as we are going to put them t.
DEATH"
20, Or shouted Louie again. 81 won
be put to death; / won't. l won't.'
And then even the gentle Teddy be
came stern with her.
Louie he said, will you please keel
quiet? This is only play. and you musn'
be such a baby"
Are YOU sure it's only play?' asked
Louie. "Quite sure, Toddy?'
''Of course. Now don't say anythin;
toll TO
| Dick and Tom Rodgers were instructed
to herd imaginary cattle OH the plains
and this they did with vim, circlint
about and shouting at a great rate.
= In the meantime the Indian camp wa
a very busy place. Teddy made ten
from some boughs and the boys coats
and the sQuaws were told to sit OH thu
ground before the tent. The captive
was bound, half tearfully. to one tree
and her child 1.-THE new wax doll wa
bound to another. Teddy and Ned Rodg
ers danced about them, screeching at tn
top Of their voices and brandishing stick
of wood which they pretended were tom
ahawks.
''Hi, hi!' screamed Teddy C'Wh!
don't you all yell?') Then the squaw
joined in, and the captive was ordere'
to scream. This was the one thing Loui
was quite willing to do. The piercin!
shrieks were signal for the cowboys t.
come to the rescue, and they came will
grand rush that was most inspiring
They promptly dispatched the Indian
and their squaws, and the captives wer
at liberty:
After the game had been played TO
several times Louie got so that she di
not mind being captive at all, and e,
should have done at first.
But this was not all of Toddy's ney
idea.
Now" he said "wc'll all be Indians
and have a regular war dance. Louie
doll can be the victim.'
$50 they left Louie's new dolly tied t
her tree, and they all got sticks an
danced around her, until. am sure. tn
doll 8 nerves were quite upset with Won
derlng what was going to happen to hel
HI, hi" yelled Teddy.
Hi. hir' echoed Louie.
Hi! hi!' squealed the rest of then
and they had a fine time with the ne,
game But, like all Of. Toddy's games
delightful as they were in the beginning
he was sure to spoil them before he GO
through -
Now " ~ he S. s - I'VE ought to hay
whats that?' asked the Indians in
breath: !. =, Z .- * ...5-. =
I Of knowing it all IF we're really, trul
Indians. ,ss q .4: Fl :.
'Oh, we are, VIC arev' they all shout
!. ed. and for the first time they really be
Il lieved they were. s .5e.3 :, :y
Teddy was somewhat mixed as to hi
Il ideas regarding Indian sacrifices, but Ii
q began to feel the necessity Of having
& real fire in this game of Indians, an,
q that was the only thing that suggeste
4 itself to his ready mind. go
Il There was breathless silence amen
the Indians, from which Fannie Sander