The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1904-11-04
Kids Dou Feast.

LdSC summer the SJrlnStOWn Kids
had an Indian camp in Walnut Grove.
This grove is a 10-acre tract northeast
OF town, embracing a little valley, an
abrupt bank from the brook and O.
sloping hill The boys patched up old
carpets, and made three tepees of fair
size, and during the summer spent
many hours very pleasantly in the as
sumption that they were noble red
men of the forest. When sch was
out this year the Kids met to consider
whether they should again erect their
totem poles at the place of the roar
ing waters.
Clarence Scoles declared Indians
were back NUMBER that there were
few of them left, and they were either
"bums" or college graduates. He had
been reading about the Philippine ISL
ands and proposed that they should
establish an Igorrote and Moro vii
lage, and have dog feasts. Clarence
had been a great medicine man and a
big chief the previous summer, and his
word carried much weight with the
Kids. They had council of war,
smoked the peace pipe, and considered
it. They were not sure they knew
enough about the Igorrotes and Moros
to impersonate them; but Clarence
hooted at that.
what will we use at the dog
feasts?" inquired Dumpy Richardson.
Bologna, of course answered
Clarence. And that settled it,
The next afternoon the boys were
all on hand, some with spades, some
with axes and some with picks. They
selected the place where the bluff was
highest, and driving stakes in, the
the branch, managed to build a plat
form about two feet above the water
This was the lake house. But while
some said the Moros lived in lake
houses, others insisted the Igorrotes
dug their houses in the ground. So
they decided to have both. By dint of
the hardest work they dug into the
bank, which, being of firm, sticky
clay formation, caved but little. In
the course of week they had hollow
ed room perhaps six feet square in
the bank, had braced it with lumber
they had picked up, and had built a
framework over the lakehouse and
covered it with boughs of trees.
Someone suggested that they ought
not to use spades in digging nor nails
in building, as the Philippine tribes
had neither.
Eyes, they do have BOTH" Numbered
Clarence, who had blisters on his
hands even as it was, and wouldn't
stand for any harder work
"They made nails from the bamboo
and spades from the ace of spades"
And that question was settled. Clar-
ences four-year-old brother, Billy
Blue Eyes, came with them every day,
and took as much interest in the house
they were constructing as did any of
the Kids.
BILLY Blue Eyes is too little to play
Igorrote," said Dumpy.
mo, he amt, neither" insisted Clar-
ence. THE Igorrotes is all little peo-
pie" Then he added, in an effort to
mollify the other Kids: 1--WE can dress
him up and let him be woman. The
Igorrote women are the tiniest people.
almost like the dwarfs they have in
the show"
So it was arranged that Billy Blue
Eyes was to be woman. Clarence pro-
claimed himself Sultan, and all the
other Kids became notables, selecting
titles that suited them, because they
didn't know what kind of officers the
Filipinos really had. Some hay was
brought down and spread in the cave
and over this was spread some nat
ting, because they had heard that the
natives wove grass mats Then they