The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-02
KID BECOMES
A MEDICINE MAN.
JOINS THE
TWO BAND. !.
Fakir's Paint Stuck After the Big
Chief Had Been Chased Out of
Town and the Kid Is Obliged to Dc
Seton Thompson Stunt.

Solomon never said nothin' wiser ms some
lines did when nothin but foolish 3 meant
philosophy of Colonel Wheaton.
had not seen the kid for something
ike that indefinite period Of time current
" known as "a month Of Sundays" but
my prophetic soul told me that he must
De UP to some rare piece Of devi1ment,
Ind the moment laid eyes on him when
ae came into the millyard, knew he had
He was clothed, and that he was in his
right mind-that Is, In his normal condi-
ton Of Adishness-the twinkle Of his eyes
plainly showed. but had to look very
hard at him ito place him." His face
looked like nothing in the world so much
as like that of the small boy who was
sent out by the schoolnaa am to wash his
face. and came back with lower portion
of 1t partially clean, and the upper ali
OF a muddy smear, answering her horRi-
fed inquiry as to why he had not wiped 1t
with the appalling reply, II did, Miss
Em'lys far ups my shirt-tail would
reach" But the kid Indignantly denied
any such brevity Of shirt when I taxed
him with 1t. Jaw, gwan' he said; IT
ain't 10 fool kid like that. What's the
matter with my face? Aw, nothin'. I've
only been playin' Injun, that's all. Didn't
you notice that fakir that was selhn' In
jun remedies on the street tournament
week? Course you seen him, N bet you
q
body else did. And you seen them two
Injun kids he had in his tent that
couldn't talk no United States. didn't you?
WE'LL them two kids was men Billy, and
say! Nobody knew us at all. My own
father blew dollar for stuff to make his
hair grow, m handed 1t out to him, n
he didn't know me. Say, don't you never
give 1t away, but that fake Injun told the
old man that stuff make his hair grow
IT, 1, 80 - +oiI GoY5
what made 1t grow SO long'n' thick was
because he rubbed the stuff Into it ey'ry
night. n it wasn't nothin' but water with
some kind Of black stuff poured Into 1t to
color 1t m make it smell good. Billyn'
me made lot Of 1t while we was fake
Injuns, too. No, my folks, m Billy's
folks neither didn't ketch on where we
was. They've quit worryin' where we are
SO longs we don't stay away moren
OF ourselves.
''The falkir struck us ON the street. m
offered us job to play Intuns for him,
m you bet we took 1t, We saw Fourth
money in it, n so We didn't kick when
he rubbed stuff on our face, hands N
neoks that turned en- black enough to
fool anybody. Why. mother was right in
front of me onoe m didn't know me from
Adams off OK. The fakir put bucxskin
brooches n shirts on US n feathers in Our
heads, n made us bout the gayest In
juns ever struck this town. He done q
good business, too, n paid us ev'ry night
all square but he got too gay, somehow,
don't know just how, for it was after he
shut up nights n we was asleep. any
how, the police run him out Of town, m
got after us, but we was too swift for
EN- n got away. Well maybe he was
the nut shell man. whatever that is, but
I don't know. Course, we hadn't done
L I,r,f
runnin' us In, m then havin' to send for
our folks to git US out, so we duoked un-
der the tent when he come in m said he'd
have to take us up to the coop till he had
US identified NJ the way we liked UP
street was too fast for him. We never
stopped till we got out to Mckinney lake,
m there we tried to wash the InjuA stuff
off, but nixyl OF 1t wouldn't come, n
we didn't know what to do till Jim AZ
heck came along the road with his team.
Jim knew US; you can't fool him with
bogus 1njuns; he's seen too many OF the
real thing, and when he got thru laughin
at us he told us to jump in and come out
to his house. He said Jim did, there was
| q tenderfoot there thinking he was camp
in out, N he was tired Of feedip him,
| m we could strike a Job tahin care Of him
while the black wore of, m he would tell
OUR folks where we was. This fool ten
derfoot he took US for the real thing at
English, n Bily pretendin' he couldn't.
We fixed it UP to take him to Little Wa
bano after bass the next day, m started
early, n to make him think he was tough,
we put 1t up we'd sleep out In the open
that night n git, the early mornin' fishin.
! one, we takin the grub we carried, n
the fryin' pan, n kittles m Billy fxin'
rock, bout fifteen pounds weight, in the
tenderfoot's roll. He was awful green,
er he'd tumbled, Sbut he didn't. Why,
to show how green VIC was, we run onto
m she begun to play broken wing, n
he was actually goin' to shoot her. But
Billy grabbed his gun. m says, all in one
word, Cakagosunnegutemok imunsassapa
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. n told him it
meant it was bad medicine to shoot the
old bird with young ones n the Windego
would get US If he did, m he said he
| thought it might be So
$50 we hiked along piece m run right
onto a bear cub asleep in a sunny piece
of sand. m that fool tenderfoot run right
up'n' grabbed 1t fore we could stop him.
Course the cub spealed like ev'rything,
m here come the old lady frothin at the
mouth. Men Billy we went up little trees,
too little fer her to git her arms round
m climb, and yelled at him to drop the
cub, n go UP one. But he stood there
gapin' till the old one was nearly on him
n then he dtd crop the CuD n run Su'
tho old bear caught him in three jumps
m handed him one in the back that sem
him face down ON the ground. N he lait
there like he was killed. Then she smel'
at him, m come back on three legs, n
drove off the cub into the woods, she still
alimpin'. She'd hit that rock. you see
Then we come down and fetched him tt
with water, N, some whisky we found II
his pocket, but he wouldn't go fshin' mol
: anything but back to Jim's, n we had te
carry that loaded blanket an awful way:
fore we got chance to unload the rocl
while he wasn't lool1in'. M Jim hauled
i the whole crowd to town, n the tender
a foot he paid us well.
Ought to be ashamed to take his none!
!, you say! Why ought we? Didn't tina
rock save his life? That old beard brok
his backbone smack in two If we hadn'
put 1t there, and that was worth some
thing. Say! Do you think I look mos
/, like Niger I'm Injun?"