The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-03-15
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Chicats had come in Dody-uoss, babies and canoes
say nothing OF the DogEars the Little Salons ana
the Missions. rull half thousand OF them 10 ceIe-
brate the wedding. and never white man IN score
OF miles.
and hiding my face, and 4 waded knee deep through
the dogs and youngsters t was we'll up the front.
The show being pulled of In big open place
among tie trees with great fires burning and the snow
moccasin-packed hard Portland cement. Next
me was Illy beaded and scarlet clothed galore and
against her Chief George and his head The
shaman being helped out by the big medicines
from the other tribes and shiyered my spine up and
down. the deviltries they cut L caught myself
dering il the folk in Liverpool could only now.
/ licked after my first voyage just because he
for having sallorman counting his sister. And with
Gussie in my eyes looked at Tilly. rum old world,
little dreamed of when he lay at suck.
so be. When the noise was loudest walrus hides
booming and priests a-singug, i says; Are you
ready? GaWd. Not "a start not shot of the eyes me-
way. not the uyitch of a muscle. knew. she an-
swerS slow and steady as "a calm spring uee where
The high bank the edge of the ice whispers back.
Jump out when 1 give The word.
Ola say IneIt Was no END OF HusAlea! MeA'
there was no end Here there everywhere, they were
scattered about-tame wolves and nothing less. When
the strain runs thin they breed them n The bush win
the wild. and they're bitter fighters Right the
. of my mOccasn lay a big brute and by the heel
other doubled the first ones TAIL quick I'm it snap
ped In my grip AS his jaws clipped together where
my hand should have been / threw the second by
the scun straight into his mouth. Co. cried to
you know how they Gght. In the wink of an eye
there was raging hundred of them, top and bottom
ripping and tearing each other aids and squaws tum-
slipped away, so I followed But when I looked over
my shoulder the skirt of the crowd the devil laid
me by the heart and dropped the blanket and went
back
But then the dog'sd been knocked apart and the
crowd was untansllng itself. Nobody was in proper
place, so they didn't note That IlLy gone. Hello
says, gripping Chief George 10y the hand May your
potlach smoke rise often and the Sticks bring many
Lord love me. Dick but he was joyed to see me
him with the upper hand and wedding lilly. Chance
to puff big me The tale shat was hot after her
had spread through the camps and my presence dId
him proud. All hands knew without my blanket
and set TO grinning and siggng. 10 was rich, but
made it richer by playing unbemoUing.
whats the row| 1 asks. Who's getting married
Chief George the shaman says. ducklng his rev.
Thought he had two klooches'
" Him takum more-three.' with another duck.
"'Oh" And I turned away as though il didnt in
But this wouldn't do and everybody begins singing
out. 'T<iisnO0! KiisnOO!
'KHIisnoo what2 ] asked.
'Killisnoo. klooch Chief George, they blathered.
Il jumped and looked at Chief George. He nodded
his head and threw out his chest.
she'll be no kooch of yours I says, solemny. No
klooch Of yours repeats while his face went black
and his hand began dropping 10 his hunting knife.
Look. 1 cries striking an attitude. Big medic
cine You watch my smoke
81 pulled off my mittens. rolled back my sleeves and
made half a dozen passes u the air.
Killisnoo" 1 shouts. killsnoo. Kiiiisnoo"
81 making medicine and they began To scare
Every eye was on me. no time find out that lilly
wasn't there. Then ] called killisuoo three times
terry and to make them nervous Nhiet George couldn't
guess what was up to- and wanted 20 put stop 90
the fooery but the shaman said wait and that they'd
see me ana go one better or words 10 Jdl eject Be
sides he was a supersttous cuss and fancy bit
Afraid Of taa 1slliie-lllsl maggie. ----.-
Then called hlllsnoo, long and soft, like the howl
of wolf. oil the women were all a-tremble and the
bucks looking serious
Look" sprang for'ard pointing my finger into
bunch of squaws-easier 20 deceive women than men.
you know. Look And ] raised it aloft as though
Following the hight of a bird Up up. straight over
head making TO follow it with my eyes till it dis
appeared i'm the sky
.Kinisnoo," / said looking at Chief George and
pointing upward again. 'Kisuoo'
so help me- Dick the CANNON worked. Half Of
them at least saw lilly disappear in the air. They'd
drunk my whisky at Juneau and seen stranger sights,
IN warrant Why should I not do this thing-I. who
sold bad spirits eorked in botes2 Some of the wom-
shrieked. Everybody fell 20 whispering punches.
] folded my arms and held my head high, and they
drew further away from me. The time ripe TO go.
Grab him" Chief George cries. Three four of them
came TO me, but / whred quick made a couple of
passes like TO send them after Tily, and pointed UP.
Touch me- Not for the kingdom of the earth. Chief
George harangues Them but he couldn't get them 10
life leg. Then he made 10 take himself. but /
repeated the mummery and his grit went out through
his fingers
Let your shamans work wonders the like of
which have done this night 1 says. Let them call
kllsnOO down out of the sky whittier 1 have sent
her. But the priests knew their limits May your
koOches bear you the spawn of the salmon L
says, turning go, and may your totem pole stand
long in the land and the smoke of your camp rise all
ways
But if the beggars could have seen me hitting the
high places for sloop as soon as i was clear of them
they'd thought my own medicine had gone after me-
Tly'd kept warm by chopping the ice away and was
all ready 10 Off GaWdl how before it, the
Taku bowling after and freezing sweeping
at every clip. With everything batteneI down. me
a-steering and Tily choppng ice held half the
night. till l pumped the sOOp ashore ON POrCuDue
island and shiN cred III out the beach blankets
Wet and lilly drying the matches her breast.
so L think i know something about it, Seven
years, Dick, man and wife. i'm rough sailing and
smooth And then she died ia the heart of the win
ter up there the Chilcat station She held my
hand the last the ice creeping up inside the door
and spreading thick the gut of the window. Out
side the lone howl of the wolf and the silence inside
death and the silence. You've never heard of the s-
lence yet, Dick and GaWd grant you don't ever have
10 hear il when you SIT by the side of death. Hear
it? Aye, till the breath whistles like siren and the
heart bOOms bOOms. bOOms like the surf the shore
"Siwush, Dick, but "a woman. White. Dick, white
clear through Toward the last she says. Keep my
feather bed Tommy. keep it always And L agreed.
Then she opened her eyes. fun with the pain. I've
been good woman 90 you, Tommy, and because Of
that / you 90 prOmst-t0 prOmise'-the words
seemed to stick in her thrOat-that when you marry
the woman be white. No more Siwash. Tommy. I
know. Plenty white women down TO Juneau now I
know. Your people call you 'sQuaWman, your WOm-
turn their heads to the side the street and
you do not go to their cabins like other men. Why2
Your wife SiWash. is it not sO2 And this not good
Wherefore I die. Promise me- kiss In token Of
your promise
81 kissed her and she dozed Off whispering TT is
good AT the end that near gone my her
hps-she reused for the last time Remember Tommy;
remember my feather bed. Then she died up there
the ChiCat station