Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1905-08-05

energy, and say, it were surprisin' what
2 fondness for fishin Sonny developed
all of student. He were gone all day
long, and when he comes in all of his
talk were of the noble red men-and
women; but towards the end of the
week it simmered down to one little
half Injun gal. AS l says, he were
mighty good with pencil and paints and
clay, but at word paintin' he shore were
dandy. When he started in to talk
of Minnehaha (that what called herr,
could jest lean back and shet my
peppers and see the most beautifulest
Injun princess, tall and stately minnie
were rather short and inclined to toe in).
all logged up in the gladdest rags, hand
in hand with Higherwater (that were
Sonny, strolin' through the grandest
palaces, and everybody takin' off their
sombreros to 'em.
"'And, says Sonny, 'in a leetle while
she'd be the most beautifulest and the
most gracefullest lady in this glorious
and imperial empire. She's highly ed.
ucated, she is. She's been to Carlisle,
and he sets up straight on his candle
box and his eyes snaps, and he says de-
termined like, I'm goin' to marry her,
JIM She's willin', and when l make
my stake III take her back to my
parental halls, and I'll take her by the
hand and say to my father and mother
and sisters: Dear ones, l have brought
you Injun princess for daughter and
sister; love her as you love me. And
she is a princess on her mas side. Her
grandpa was, a great chief and had
lot of pipes that he got himself from
the red pipestone quarry in Dakota
what that Longfeller tells about.
''Now Sonny had the pictures Of his
folks and they looked way up. l could
jest see how they'd look when he trotted
in poor leetle Minnehaha, and l sees
that it II never do, so l makes up my
mind to give the kid a good squar talk
in the mornin', but only says to him
that night: Why don't you make stat
ute of this here Injun princess. Well
sir, it struck him dead center, and l
gamble he didn't sleep much that night.
IN the mornin' after breakfast, tries
to argue the case with him. pints out
to him how it would never do-how bad
MS poor ma would feel, and how sham
ed his lovely sisters would be, for while
some Of the Injun gals was ruther good
ookin' they gets old mighty quick, and
lot like whisky, they don't improve
much with age. l says, says l: Look
1t this here Minnie's ma; she isn't over
hirty-fve, and she looks sixty, and
he's taller layin' down than standin up.
he'd make a great goddess of liberty
)erched on packsaddle.
81 didn't get no further; could tell
" the way Sonny fired the stick of
stove wood that he doesn't agree with
ne leetle bit, so as it's none Of my
business nohow, I jest laughs and calls
to Sonny that he had better get to work
on his statute, and goes to sawin' wood
Jest outside the door whar l can see him
nixin' the tale and flour and maxim it
4bout half and half. jest saws away
and cogertates, and this is what sets
me to thinllin. You see thar were a
lour-miller man out on the prairie that
had took to maxim self-risin' flour. All
you had to do was to stir some salt and
water in it and let her flicker We had
got a sack to try and had jest opened
it and dumped it into the -four bin and
Sonny didn't know anything about it.
So were sawin' wood and wonderin'
what would happen to that thar statute
if it should happen to get too hot before
it got dry.
"Well the kid he works all mornin'
on it, and when dinner time comes he
wraps it all up in wet cloths, eats
his grub, takes his fshin' pole and
strikes out down the creek. He stays
purity late that night and were in bed
when lie gets in, so we didn't have no
romancin' about Injun princess and Lo,
the noble red men.
''The next day Sonny works steady,
hardly takin' time to eat, and about the
middle OF the afternoon he calls me in
to view this har image, and say, it beat
anything ne ever done. You bet she
we're a princess. Sonny had nodded her
as he saw her. but it didn't really look
very much like this har leetle Injun gal
to me. He we're mighty anxious to
show it to The gal, but he says he wants
it to dry first.