The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06

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WHISTLER ~ nobis frd man has chahset
IN temperament during the last INV NJ
Hlsty years I ~ not pfe,sad ~ hnow bt
IN fact wmaina that The present ttv
Indian IN MoHtsna IL q aooa trsi NJ n vae
lovlna 10 Josh and cracking hia ittlc lnbea
With On enjoyment that esves M drin'
~ he asnaa N hnmori
A few yenrs aaD ! vas Is OIL ~ inash
aohool IN Q tiny vliIaRs In southern Nont,nn
Thp schooIho,sae, n ntfH one storicti '1r
shack with 4 mud roof out ~ which arrs
weeds and grass, stood on tho edRr W
The prairie. about half 4 miln from what
W. called tho town and soniethinR lesa than
five miles from q large Indian reservation
1T was lonely ~ best. sven whom tho
children I had only twenty In the winter
were playing In tho school ynrd ono d1v
what waa my surprise 10 see a young H.
dian, clad In o bright red blanket. with
eagle feathers on hia head and = string
Of buffalo teeth around hia neck, standing
outside one ~ the little square windowa.
staring In ~ me with nil hia eyer
'He could not have been more than H.
I was old enough To be his mother.
Il was sharpening load psncia at the
moment. After he had Watched me Tor
O couple Of minutes. an amused expression
on his bronzed face. no turned toa youngstsr
who was playing
How many pony he asked. With q
grin. motioning toward me.
sThe lad doubled up with mirth At tho
idea Of selling teacher for an Indian squaw,
but managed to st%raighten out his face long
enough to reply:
Seven
IAN right" responded the Indian,
winking. I go fetch EN-
"And he jumped on his pony and can
tered of, apparently post haste for the
seven ponies.
aOf course he never came back. Teacher
remained an unclaimed bargain on the
hands Of her pupils till q call came To 90
to the North Yakima reservation. But the
Indian had his little joke all the same.
AT that time the North Yakima reserva-
ton was policed by Indians. One day a
couple Of Indian policemen arrested TWO
Irish tramps, it being q criminal offence in
those days for an outsider to enter the reser-
walton except or business.
@Thc Irishmen were terribly scared.
Visions of scalpings n allow roastings
over beds of red hot Goals jostled one
another in their Mortified brains and their
trepidation increased when they were
brought by their captors' into the presence
Of q cruel looking old chief, who sat'rigged
out in all his bravery, before a blazing fire
in his tepee.
"They expected nothing less than 70 be
scalped and eaten then and there. when
the old Indian, fixing them with his glitter
ing eyee, erunted QUIT Il 7
s'Huhi Make good Irish stewp
'And that was the worst p~unishment that
befell the guilty pair.
"A year or two ago I happened to be at
Knowlton, Mon, on my way to Elalaka.
about 600 miles to tho south, whom I learned
that there was a pilgrim, as they call all
strangers from the East, who wanted to
90 TO Ekalaka, too. That was before the
stage line was started.
@He was afoot, and having trudged all
the way from Miles City, q distance OF
thirty or forty miles, was weary and lame
The poor fellow did not know the way
to Ekalaka, and I did; 80 after hi friendly
Western fashion which. will not leave a
white man in distress Itold him We would
60 along together. ="
81 knew the ranches all along the way,
and I planned to stay the first night with
some friends who lived about twenty-five
miles out Of Knowlton. My companion,
who said his name was Rafferty,. could find
accommodations in their ~bunkhouse, l
was sure.
swell. three hours out Of Knowlton 1t
came on O pelting ram. Going at a foot
pace as we were, Mr.. Rafferty, riding my
bronco sometimes while I walked and !
riding sometimes while he walked, We
were soon drenched to the skio. The
gumbo, too, was beginning to make tfavci-
ling O very sticky and slippery business
when Unexpectedly we came upon an
Indian tepee, with a buck, a aquaw and
three or -four children orouched over a
handful OF smoking embers inside.
Il told my companion 1 was 'R9ing to
remain there for the night. He objected
s~trenuously. / think he was afraid for his
scalp, but / told him / should not stir another
step, and at last with an i'll grace he entered
the tepee.
THE buck eyed us gravely as ! explained
in Indian how we had been caught in the
deluge. Then Rafferty,, pluoking up his
courage, remarked to the Indian with an
afectation OF careless ease:
Very wet, john
"'very wet, john returned the INDIAN
without stirring an eyelash,
Early the next morning, having slept
soundly all night wrapped up in a blanket
In the Indians little smoky tepee in COM
pany with my host and hostess, their four
children and two dogs and my pilgrim, ]
standing beside my bronco refoldihg
nv saddle blanket when up comes Mr..
Indian.
1Motioning with his thumb over his shout
der toward Rafferty,, who was scraping the
r,mbo of his oowhides. he asked In a stage
whisper, winldng with a delightfully."- funny
Hir:
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