Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-07-23

toned Peggy about the loss Of her
wooden leg
Il will not wear il" she repeated
stubbornly 1T hurt, and | threw II
away"
She hoped about the street on her
crutch, which Ann Rutledge had found
by the hand-mill the night the alarm
was given, her injured leg hanging
straight beneath the deerskin gar
ment Some change in her was no
tfced, even by her schoolmates.
who cut Peggy Shickshack's hair,
viane Rutledge?" inquired Nancy
Green, when the girls sat outdoors with
their dinner retfcules 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 u.s.
"Shickshacks wife doesn't visit the
neighbors, does she?"
NO. 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 am glad she
lost her wooden leg when Satan or
something tried to carry her Off"
MY brother Red exclaimed Mar
ths Bell Clary, told me the horse
blanket that was throwed over Peggy
Shickshack that night smelt OF brim-
stone!"
your brother Red retorted Nancy
Green with Impotence, gets threat
ened with birthstone so much in meet
Ing that he smells it on everything"
We'll, 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
back2"
"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 Grove,"
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.
I'VE all thought she was queer be-
fore we found out she was Spaniard, "
said Martha Bell.
You'd be queer, too" exclaimed
Nancy Green, IF 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
I hala. Lets get her do it for u.s."
'Shickshack won't let her" objected
Ann Rutledge's sister. "He wants her
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 | wouldn't be her, if she ia
] the best reader in school,"
The first really warm noon of the
budding year, while Peggys school
mates we're 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 a parcel in his left
hand, and sometimes held 1t before him
| and sometimes hid 1t behind his back
keeping his right hand ready to uncar
| himself IL 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
singinS from an inner room, and
paused, throwing her long braids
behind her back when she saw the Can
adam 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. mamselle. | will stand here"
Did you want TO see any one?"
Il want to see you"
Here | am" The girl dimpled al
his embarrassment.
Nam selle, have TO ask of you a
favor. VIII you do me the kindness
to look at what bring in my hand?"
CHAPTER Nv.