The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-01-26

Ne l says 'OsaSes don't eat no dogs.
ITS different with Utes a whole lot,
says Dan. Which Utes Regards dogs plen-
Nv fay'ble. deemn' of EN- as a mighty
sCcyoolent dish. The time I'm with the
Utes, they pulls off a shindig tea dance
1t is. an as what HugGins would call on
tho programmes of his Eird Cage op'ry
Horse "a star Teacher they ups and
rcasts a white dog. That canine is shore
fat. They lays him on his broad. helpless
back and shets off his wind with a stick
cross-wise of his Ecck that away. an two
bucks pressin' ON the ends. When he's
good an dead. an all without no suffoosion
of blood. the Utes sinses his fur off in a
fire an then bakes him as he Is. l partakes
Of that dog-soIne. / don't nacherally lay
. for said repast, full toothed am remorseless,
like It's fiapiacks-I don't gorge myself
none: but when I'm in Rome. / plays their
system an strings my chips with the Ro-
mans. so 1 takes a brace an sort o. eats
baked dog with the Utes. Otherwise I'd
hurt their sensihilItles: an i ain't out to
harrow up TO entire tribe an me playin'
q lone hand
THAT agent questions ELL as to them
war-dance carryin'S on of old Black Dog.
Then he p'nts. lat Bits blankets an feath-
ers. an shakes his head q heap disapproba-
tif.
'Shuck them blankets an feathers
says the agent AM get back Into your
trousers q whole lot Be plumb sudden
about 1t, too. I puts up with the divers
an sundry rannikabooisms of old an case
hardened 1njun who's savag an on
ts ught. But you're different. You've been
to school an learned about the virchoos OF
pants. NachcraIy, 1 looks for you to set
Axamples.'
'Its then Bill gets high an puts II up
q wear clothes to suit himss'f. Bill de-
nounces trowsers as foolish In their con-
struct1on an fallacious In their plan. BIZ
allows they're e heap bad scheme trowser
is: an then be defes the agent. ELL stands
pat on blankets an feathers.
Which you will. win your remarks thi,
agent.
'Then he claps Bill In irons a heap de-
cisive an plants him up ag'in the high
face of a rock bluff which has been frown-
in down on Bird River since Adam makes
his first camp. Then this earnest agent.
putin q hammer into Bilrs hand, sets
him to breakin' rock.
Which the Issue IL trowsers,' says this
yera obdufate sport; AN III keep you-ali
whackin' away at them powders while the
cliff lasts onless you yields. Thar's none Of
you young Usage bucks goin' to bluff me.
an that's whatever
"Bill breaks rocks two days. The other
Osages comes an perches about, sympa-
thetic, an surveys Bill. They exhorts him
to be 6rm; they gives 1t out cold In Usage
that he's a patriot.
"Bills willin' to be q Usage patriot as the
game Is commonly dealt, but when his love
Of country done takes the form of poundin'
rocks, them noble sentiments which yereto-
fore bubbles In Bits breast, sort O. COM
mences to pail on Bill a lot, an he amt
none shore but what trousers liz rightD By
second d~rinktime-only savages don't drink
none. the COMMENT barrin' nosepaint on ac-
count of it maxim 'em too gala an exyoo-
berant-by second drinktime the second
evenin' Bill lays down. his hand-pitches his
hammer into the diskyard thataway; an
when I crosses up with him Bilrs thai alb