The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-23

bly, scared and almost fell on his back
as the bear turned and grOwled to right I
and left, bowed again before Tom and I
repeated the performance many times, /
so that they were all in a state of col /
lapse when it stopped and Tom walked !
off with it smiling. The boy had an
other idea as he returned to his auto
mobile, and he undid a package of
Piker's Concentrated Soup Compound,
and taking out several of The hard
frozen cakes, which looked tor all the
world like big black pebbles, he slipped
them into his pockets and returned TO
his people. Shaman was staring into
the darkness with a peculiar express
sion, thinking of some new trick, but
his mind would not work, as he was
too terrified.
Now, o Smarty Shaman, the Won
der worked, follow me closely. III give
you another chance, and if you don't
succeed you can't try again, but you
must hand over your job to me, for
am a greater medicine man than you
ever heard Of
Made Soup Out of Stones.
Then he asked the whole company to
move close TO the big cooking pot that,
| filled with boiling water, hung over the
fire ready for the evening meal of
boiled seal Upper and seaweed, which
is the Eskimo substitute for corned
beef and cabbage, you know. All came
close together, fearing TO separate at
this trying time Then Tom cried out
! in loud, jeering voice:
! step up, Shaman, and listen. Now
defy you to put stones in the water
in this pot and make soup for US all
tonight. Let's see the limit Of your
wonder workingi"
| As this was a trick of which Shaman
was ignorant, he knew that Tom had
him and that it would only be delay
| ing his undOing TO pretend to attempt
/ the feat He mumbled and muttered
! while Tom stood grinning. and finally
/ wrapped his head in his skins to signi-
fy that he gave up, collapsed and went
| back to sit in the remote rear. But he
peeped with one eye to see Tom do the
trick, thinking, perhaps, to move to
some other tribe and get honor there
1 by performing it, as medicine men
often do. Tom pretended to gather up
black pebbles along the shore, each
time substituting a soup cake, until
his hands were filled, and then he
showed the supposed pebbles to the as
sembled gathering. All stared at him,
open-mouthed and silent. In loud
voice he repeated these mystic words:
Alma, mama, mona mike,
Barcelona. bona, strike:
Eeenyweeny. meeney mo.
Catch a Niger by The toe
Whe, whoa, why, whack, you're it,
Then, with due soIemnity, he softly
dropped pebble after pebble into the
boiling water, and almost instantly as
the cakes dissolved there arose the de-
licious fragrance of Pikers Superb
soup, and with especial sweetness. too
as there was a mixture Of ten different
havors, the same being mutton, beef
lamb, chicken, turtle, clam. pea, bear
and tomato and ox-tan- This Won
drous aroma waited into the noses OF
the Eskimos. and the fragrance ticl1lec
their nostrils and crept into theil
brains. and even the gaunt, rough
coated dogs slavered and drooled as
they hunched up nearer to the pot and
drew in long, delicious shifts of the
scent Then Tom called two of TIT
big men to take. off the pot, as thu
! soup was ready, and - they eagerly
obeyed-' Soon the whole tribe wa
blissifully making away with tn
magic broth, and you may be sure l
was the most wonderful feast they haS
ever had. When the pot had beel
: licked clean by the dogs the peoDl
|, demanded of Shaman that he ham
7 over the symbol of the medicine MAJ
: to Tom, and Shaman, now fully con
: | vinced that a great wonder worke
had arisen, handed him the ivory stocl
a that was his sign of power, after whiel
: he packed up his tools and went of t
4 the Thinklits, many miles away. wher
: he got great honor by simply tellin
r what he had seen Tom do with te
: black pebbles.
d Went Back to Civilization.
n Next day the professor and the res
n of the men arrived, and Tom intro
d duced them to his father. They re
h NAMED there a few days and the
!. went into the farther north. and ToI
: went too. On the return he didn't sta