The Red Cloud chief., 1908-05-08

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Here lie cried, I'm no little kid
when | promise | mean it! As for
your not havin: any right, amt we MI
there IS! You've got To he mother and
sister and aunt and everything To me.
| amt as young ns | have been, Matte,
and | miss Sideways terrible at times. .
Now. put out Your fin like n good pard.
ncr. anl her" goes FOR no more rhine.
cnloOS for ,llanta Scechee Rcd-timc
I quit drinking, anyhow" he slipped
a ring eff his little finger. Here. hold
out your hand said he. 'Ill put this
on for luck aud the sake Of the prom
Use by the same token, I've got n
moose on you now, and you're my prop.
crty."
This of course was only Cousin
Wills Joking. hut Miss Matte noticed
with Il sudden hot flush that he had
chosen the engagement tingCr-in all
ignorance. she felt sure. The last
thing she could do would lie 20 call
his attention 10 "a" fact or run the
risk of hurting his feelings by trans
fcrring The liug: besides. il was Il pref
~ ring, u rough ruby in Il plain goli
land-and looked very we'll where 1t
was.
Then they settled down for what
Rcd called Il good medicine talk. Miss
Matte found herself boldly speaking:
of little farcics ?Hd notions that had
! remained IL the inner shrine of her
soul for years. shrinking from the mat
tcr-of-fact eye of Fairfield: yet this
big. feroClulls looking Cousin VIII
seemed TO find them both sane and in
tCrcsting, and rs her self respect went
up in the arlthmctical her admiration
for Cousin Will went up In the geo
metrical ratio. lie frankly admitted
weaknesses and fears that the males
Of Fairfield would have rejected
s%cOrnfully.
Miss Matte spoke Of sleeping up.
stairs, because she could not rid
herself Of the fear Of somebody COM
ing in.
IL know tust how YOU feel about
that" said Red. MY hair used to he
on its feet most Of the time when we
were in the hay camp at the lake beds.
Gee whiz!- The rattlcrs! We put hair
ropes around-b nj them ~rattlers liked
to squirm over hair ropes for exercise.
One morning I woke up and there was
a crawler on my chest. For Gods
sake. Pete" says I to Antelope Pete,
who was rolled up next me. come take
my friend away" and l didn't hOller
very loud neither. Pete was chain
lightning in pants. and he grabs Mr..
Rather by the tail and snaps his neck.
but ! felt lonesome In my inside TIL
dinner tim". You bet! | know just
how YOU feel exactly. didn't lave u
mans sized nights rest willie we was
in that part % the country
1t struck Miss Matte that the cases
were hardly parallel. a rattlesnakc
on your chest. Will.' she cried, with
her hands cl2spcd in terror.
ooh. It wasn't as bad MS ii sounds.
lie was asleep, "ullcd up there 10 get
warm slarpiSh nights on the prairie
In Angus, hUt darn it. Matte" wrin.
king up his nosc in disgust. II hate
| the sight Of Tie brutes!"
"But you wouldn't he afraid of n
man. Will.'
"Wcll. no" admitted lie. i've new
Ell been trullblcl much that way. lol
: sec, everybody has Il different fear IL
throw Il crimp in them. Mines rattle.
snakes and these little bugs with forty
million pairs of legs. l pass right out
when | see one of them things. They
give me 4 feeling as If my stummicl:
had melted
Weren't the Indians terrible out
= H.. ,...f' ,aIaI kgI., NInttin .1I'n,
sure they must have BEEN
ooh, they amt bad people IL yo,
use 'cm right said Red. Not that
like EN- any better on the ground
:, !, than in IT," he added hastily, fearfuI
Of hctrayimg the sentiment Of his
country, hut | never had but II reaI
= argument man To man. Black VOL
and | come together over a matter OF
who owned my cayusc. and from
u words We backed of and got TO shoot
ing. lie raiel me from knee TO hip, n,
= l was kuecling down, doing the hes
I could 10y him and wasting ammuni
ton because | was In a hurry. Still,
y did bust his ankle. In the middle 81
I the fuss = stray shot hit the cayuse il
the head, and he crOaked without a.:
remark, go there we were, Il pair o
y fools miles from home with nothing
left 10 quarrel about. You could hav,
fried an egg on Il rock that day, and i
/ always makes yon thirsty TO get sho
u anyways serious, thinking OF which
y hollcred peace 10 old Black Wolf ant
told him Ia pull straws with him L
see who took my santecn down TO III,
creek and got some fresh water. III
y was agreeable and we hunched up I,