Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-31
The ST?;NSTOWN
KIDS DOG FeAS.

This gr0|t Is a in-aarc tract norzh-
c@4t OF town embraui.l- a little Val
~, al a'.lar, Astnk from the brook
5l.d i ~To4iH- AL The hoys paJtilcd
r2 aIa carpets ans! ..aae ,hs@c t,pces
OF fair size and during the summer
sHeH. many h2Hrs very pleasantly in
the assumption that hey We're noble
rcd mna Of The f0rest. When school
was otf his year the Kids met II
consider whether they should again
@ract thoj' totem poles al The place Of
the roaring waters,
Clarence Scoles declared that h
dians Wsro back number; tnat
there We're few OF them left, and they
were either abulns or college grad
fates He had been reading about he
philippine Islands, and proposed that
they should establish an Igorrote and
Moro village, and have dog fcasts.
Clarence had been great medicine
man and big chief the previous sum
mer. and his word carried great
weight with the Kids. They held a
council OF war smoked the peace
pipe. and considered it. They were
not sure they knew enough about the
I9orrotes 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 H.
The next afternoon the boys We're
all on hand. some with spades. some
With axes and some With picks. They
selected he place where the bluff was
hi&hest. and driving stakes in the
branch, managed TO build platform
about two feet above the water. This
was the lake house. But while some
said The M0ros lived in lake houses.
others insisted that the Ieorrotes dug
their houses in the ground. So They
decided 10 have both By dint Of the
hardest work they dug into the bank,
which. hein2 of a firm. sticky clay
formation, caVed bet little. In the
course Of a week they had followed a
raom neeha@s six feet square in the
bank, had traced it with lumber
thaE mad picked up. and bull q
framework over the laSohouse and
covered it with hod1hs OF trees.
Someone suggested that they ought
not TO use spades in digging nor mails
ia building, as the Philippine tribes
had neither
Yes, they do have both" thunder
ed Clarence, who had blisters or his
hands even as it was. and wouldn' Z
stand for any harder work.
They made nails from the bamboo
and spades from the ace of spades .
And that question was settled
Clarence's four-year-old brother. Bill
~ Blue Eyes. came with them every
day. and took as much interest in the
house they We're constructing as did
any of the Kids
Billy Blue Eyes is too little TO
play lgorrote.' said Dumpy.
No. he amt, neither insisted
Clarence. "The Igorrotes is all small
people" Then he added, in an effort
to mollify the other kids: I'VE can
dress him ZIP and let him be woman.
The Igorrote women are the TIMES;
people. almost like the dwarfs they
have in the show"
So it was arranged that Billy Blue
Eyes was to- be a woman. Clarence
proclaimed himself Sultan, and al!
the other Kids became notables, Sc
lecting titles that suited them. be-
cause they didn't know what kind of
officers the Filipinos really had. Some
hay was brought down and spread in
the cave and on the floor of the lake
house, ana over this was spread some
mating, because they had heard that
tn natives wove grass mats. Then
they BROUGHT down each his particular
treasure, and arranged a very com
Portable lounging place.
All things now being in readiness,
they began to arrange for their first
dog feast The mothers Of the Kids.
being wise women, humored the pre-
t tentions of the Kids, so long as thew
were innocent, for, aside from the fact
that they entertained and kept thH
youths from mischief, it also enabled
the mothers to know where they could
be found. So there was baking and
fixing" in more than one home. Tho
Kids We're jubilant, for their first dog
feast promised to be a grand success;
and they damned to follow it up with
a big head hunt Head hunting was
to be their principal sport.
The day before the first dog feast
the Kids were all kept at home all
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