The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-03-30

coin, "a warrior can take tent-pole
and beat his squaw, or he can give her
plenty goods and drive her out of his
wigwam. But me marry white woman;
me have to stand her like white man"
He was at first concerned, and ques-
toned Peggy about the loss Of her
wooden leg.
81 will not wear it," she repeated
stubbornly. at hurt, and l threw it
away"
She hoped about the street on her
crutch, which Ann RutledGe had found
by the handmill the night the alarm
was given, her injured leg hanging
straight beneath the deerskin gar
ment. Some change in her was no
ticed, even by her schoolmates.
"Who cut Peggy Shickshack's hair,
Viane Rutledge?" inquired Nancy
Green, when the girls sat outdoors with
their dinner reticules the first warm
day. The budding woods were then
alive with bees.
"Ann," responded AIMS younger sis
ter, with asperity. 1--WE have her tag
ging to our house all the time, now.
allow the Indians might as well
move in with us"
"Shickshack's wife doesn't visit the
neighbors, does she?"
mo. She stays at home and heats
water to scald the boys with"
Peggy looks nicer with her hair cut
straight around below the ears and
combed smooth. And l am glad she
lost her wooden leg when Satan or
something tried to carry her off,"
MY brother Red" exclaimed Mar
tina Bell Clary, told me the horse
blanket that was throwed over Peggy
Shickshaclz that night smelt of brim-
stone!"
"Your brother Red" retorted Nancy
Green with impatience, "gets threat
ened with birthstone so much in meet
ing that he smells it on everything!"
"Well, how do you suppose the boat
Antywine La Chance went down the
river in, got back to the mill by morn
ing, when he rode home on horse
back?"
"Antywine brought it back himself.
Part Of the way he pulled the boat,
and part of the way he rode horseback.
You get such stories in the Groye!"
said Mahala Cameron.
Martha Bell wagged her head and
looked at Peggy, sitting apart, eating
corn bread in solitude. She was glad
to be Martha Bell Clary instead of
Peggy Shickshack. None of the girls
meant to be cruel. They wished Peggy
we'll, but made her understand she was
not as other daughters of New Salem
1--WE all thought she was queer be-
fore we found out she was a Spaniard. >
said Martha Bell.
you'd be queer, too" exclaimed
Nancy Green, eff you'd been born a
Spaniard and raised among the Sacs
and dressed always like squaw.'
But | wasn't"
Peggy can talk the Sac language
just like Shickshack," remarked Ma
hala Lets get her do it for u.s."
"Shickshacli won't let her." objected
Ann Rutledge's sister. ".He wants he1
to learn English. He says she learned
to speak English in year."
"Humph!" commented another of the
group, resentfully; ''the master shows
Partially to Peggy Shickshack, SO he
does; but l wouldn't be her, if she is
the best reader in school,"
The first really warm noon Of the
budding year, While Peggy's school
mates were looking at and talking
about her, Antywine stood at the open
tavern door waiting to speak to Ann
Rutledge Too bashful to knock, he
shifted from one moccasin to the other
hoping that some kind saint would
send Ann to the door to inquire what
he wanted. He had parcel in his left
hand, and sometimes held it before him
and sometimes hid it behind his back
keeping his right hand ready to uncaI
himself if she appeared. There was
not anything in the woods or on the
prairie which Antywine feared. But
Ann Rutledge represented to his mind
the power of society; and he was COM
ing to sue that power. She entered
singing, from an inner room, and
paused, throwing her long braids
behind her back when she saw the Can.
adian at the door.
He snatched off his cap, standing
erect, narrow of hips and shoulders
and full in chest, an elegant lightness
of make and grace of carriage setting
him apart from English-Americans
and fixed his wistful blue eyes upon
her.
Come in, Antywine La Chance"
"No, maln'selle. / will stand here. .
"Did you want to see any one?"
81 want to see you"
"Here am" The girl dlmpled at
his embarrassment.
MAN selle. have to ask of you a