The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-03-29

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was-pigeon-pie. An that's the kind Of a
yoopln' redskin Muokwingo Chuckwango
was. An he made up his mind that Jersey
Joe's pooty daughter Suky was jest about
the size an heft fer dom the chores at his
wigwam.
whether Natur' put II In the head o.
Jersey Joe 10 pack up his things an move
away from over In Jersey an settle In the
Knob country ever afore all the lnjins had
quit maxim that their stampin' ground /
dunno, but Natur' bein' kind | think mebbe
she did. Anyway, Joe moved over an
settled In the Knob country, an happened
to gtt right nigh towhere 'Zek'el had made
a cleaTin' 'Zek'e havin' come In there from
down country some'Ts, bein' a pushin'
Teller citizen, an anxious TO show civil
l~ization that II 1t wanted a place where
there was plenty o. room fer 1t TO try TO git
a footholt in. that place was the Knob
country
yes says Simon, Uncle Jase havin'
paused to take another look out o. the
Winder, an there's plenty o. room up there
yit fer 1t to git a footholt inl says he, an II
struck me as bein' rather fierce talk fer a
Teller who was thinkin' o. bein' a candidate,
till happened TO think that the Knob coun-
try want in Simon's deestric' arter all,
so 10 must be generous feelin' in the heart
that's movin' Simon regardin' Jason an
his nighness 70 the pail o. loose chawin',
says l. But l was thinkin' up somethin'
hot to say TO Simon fer his '~sinniwation
agin the Knob country when Uncle Jase
opened agin.
AN Zek'el he brung his boy Bran with
him, says Uncle Jase, an they was there
diggin' footholts when Jersey Joe an his
folks come along an settled. Right away
Suky an Bran fell dead in love with one
nDnthaN an aatoh uTa the atttuUaNtpn tuhaR
Chaw-liv wildcats come sneakin' along
by Jersey Joe's cabin one day an seen
Suky doin' the washin' or somethin'. He
stopped an looked, an when Suky seen
the ugly redskin glarin' at her she give one
all pervadln' yell an tainted dead away.
Jersey Joe was out behind the cabin
grubbin' stumps. an hearin' the yell he
grabbed a club an run to the cabin jest In
time TO see the Injln gittin' away from there,
which he wouldn't "a done, though, but
would "a stayed an tapped Joe with his
tommyhawk an carried Suky away, II he
hadn't had Intin ears an heerd 'Zek'el an
Bran comm on the run from some'rs in
the woods, So he shook his tommyhawk
at Jersey Joe, an with a Yoop like twenty
wildcats billed down into one he went out
o. sight in the woods.
But the Injin had made up his mind
about Suky an them chores o. his'n at his
wigwam, an when Muckwingo Chuckwango
had made up his mind to a thing he gener'ly
seen that IL a done. Consistently two or
three weeks arter his skeerin' Suky into fts
while she was dom the washin' he sneaked
TO Jersey Joe's cabin ag'in, ketched up
Suky afore she knowed he was there an
on he went with her into the woods, but not
afore she had give a couple o yells that her
daddy heerd.
When he got TO the clearin' an found
Suky gone he knowed to wunst what had
happened, an he piked for 'Zek'el's, an
in a jify Zek'el an young Bran an Joe
was takin' up the chase o that pesky Chaw-
live-wildcats. Zeke he went one way, Joe
another, an Bran another. Bran struck
the trail, an the frst thing the lnjin knowed
he heered the young pale face comm be-
hind him. Believin' that the best thing 70
do was not 10 take any chances, the lniin
thort he'd jest hide Suky in the bushes,
tied an gagged, an then keep on an circle
back an git her when he had throwed
Bran of the trail. So he tied an gagged
her ar hid her in the bushes, an KEEP on
his way. But when Bran come 90 the
spot he smelt a mouse right away, an
goin' of into the bushes he found Suky..
"'-Now, Suky,' says he, arter he had
omitted her an took the gag outen her
mouth, you pike fer home an I'll foller
NiAAo g NAloN~ AlAANdlet baIb Nv
AN make him wish live wildcats was
chawin' Of him instead Of it bein' me
a-dallyin' with him. says he,
Now, as luck would have II, Muck
wingo Chuckwango's old squaw, havin'
heerd that he was goin' TO fetch Suky TO
the wigwam to boss things, got mad an
jealous, an unbeknownst to anybody she
took 10 layin' fer Suky. An she was scoutin'
with fire in her eye this very day that Chaw-
live-wildcats had ketched up an scooted
of with Suky. Danl' says Uncle Jase,
'Natur' knowed what she made lnjins fer,
o. course, but II passes my understanding
why she up an done it,
1T mowt a been that IL was ponderin'
IN this puzzlin' matter that sorty made
Uncle Jase solemn jest then, but I've an
idee that more'n likely what done IL was
his %ponderin' on whether il could be that
nobody in the hull country round was goin'
TO want lasses or mackerel that day. He
took another hitch higher to the pail o
loose chawin', an Simon never moved.
Il don't know how much ground the
on his heels, said Jason, smilin' ag'in, arter
he had made the last hitch, but Suky lost
her way. She wandered an wandered, an
by an by found herself right on top O. the
teeterin' rock on Rocky Hill, back o. the
big tamarack swamp. She knowed where
she Nas then, an she sot down on the rock
&c rcIt : Ettls Gore she went on.
"~"Crackeel' says she, as she looked way
down to the foot O. the mountain, where
the swamp stretched away. If this tee
term rock should happen to take a notion
10 60 scootin' down from here, says she,
-'Biram would have to look some'r's else
fer a bridel' says she, an she begun to back
of o. the rock, skeery at the idee.
But fore she had backed half way of
she felt the rock tippin', an the next second
down that mountain il did 60 a-scootin'
sure enough, with Suky clingin' to it, Dan'l,
that jealous old squaw O. Chaw.live-wild-
cats had struck Suky's trail, an comm
up TO her on the rock had sneaked to II an
pried II OMEN its balance, an there it was
a-goin' down lords the swamp like a
thunderbolt, an Suky on top Of IL! An
II that rock had rolled, Danl, maturity or
not, it d "a been onfortnit fer Suky, but
II slid. An when ii vas half way down. out
in the openin' at the bottom o. the noun
tain tumbled 'Biraman' haw-live-wildcats,
fghtin' TO the death. Suky give a shrek, an
the two fighters heered the rock comm.
They wasright in its path. They stopped an
looked up. Chaw- live-wildcats sprung TO
git outen the way Of II, but Bran ketched
him an hauled him back An there he
held the Injin, right i. the path O. that big
slidin' rock. comm like a thunderbolt,
an Suky On top of il. Leanin' back 80
that the rock Jest swep' him with it's wind
as II rushed by. Bran held the onregenerit
Injin with one hand, an with t'other
hand he grabbed Suky an lifted her often
the rock. The big grindin' stone ketched
Muckwingo Chuckwango square an plumb,
an took him along with II a hundred foot
out in the swamp. an sIuashed him down
under IL as IL he hadn't been no more'n
a toadstool. An there his bones is yit,
Danl, an that rock is his gravestunl So