The Nevada County picayune., 1908-10-22
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s1y Ie.- fueds divided t b e r
 friendship, bu t t h e
 K2 camps were not hos tile now, and a warriors right on neighboring territory was not ques- tioned so long as his arrow was kept in its quiver and his greeting was one of peace
 With his calm face toward the trail, his moccasins giving back no echo, the Cherokee brave, straight as an arrow, had almost strode upon the maiden when he came upon her weav- ing fragrant grasses by a messy brook side.
 With never move to indicate that he had seen her, or pause, he passed in measured step. He did not need to look back He knew that at his appearance she had fled, gentle and quick as the breeze.
 Stately and silently again he fol- lowed the trail to the brook but the place was vacant. When the maiden returned she found bunch of blue jay feathers, beautiful and blue
 
 through the forest, to find vacant place But the smooth, blue feathers were gone In their place he left a redbird's wing, and the maiden found this also.
 Once again he came. This time pA moved cautiously between the trees for the maiden was weaving grasses and into her lap he shot an arrow tipped with gorgeous bit of breast from a rare water fowl. The maiden sprang up, and her quick eye follow ing the direction from which the ar row had come, spied the brave. She paused a moment, hesitated. Then from the band that held her shining hair she took redbird feather which she placed on the moss, and. taking up the brilliant bit of breast, she he6.
 A brightness akin to a smile lit the face of the Cherokee brave. Passing Breeze will come again." he said
 The seventh day he placed a gift upon the moss-his choicest gift, a trophy of his prowess. It was a necklace of fox teeth. white as pearls and shining as the dew on the man drake bloom.
 It was a precious treasure and from the shade of a mighty oak he watched il until the maiden came shyly from her side of the forest. Then h. leaned forward to watch as she examined tse treasure At first she hesitated but when she had dropped the cleaning string around her neck Da>dah nel leh stepped ont and at a distance stood before her proud and calm waiting for rocogut ton A moment she regarded him in thoughtful silence. Then she took from her neck an ornament and held fl forth, and thus the Cherokee brave made friends with the Choctaw maiden by the brook where the sweet grass grew.
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 They were drifting down The river fin little bark canoe, the Cherokee brave and the daughter of the great chief. Troung Wolf
 No sound broke the stiffness of the night save that of a mockugbird singing 10 the evening breeze and the sluggish play Of the water against the dropping willow branches Far away the camp or the Cherokee slept. while nearer, the teepes of the Choc. taw showed their triansular tops here and there against the sky
 From the moonlight which flooded the broad smoothly-f Arkansas. the brave turned his canoe, and in the shadow of a great rock let it float. and here told the maiden of panther he had killed that day whose skin he had stretched 10 dry for rug when her little red blanket should hang beside his on his tepee wall. and his lodge should be hers
 Now our nations are at peace he said. and your father the great chief. Trotting Wolf, Will not say I may net visit at his lodge and smoke with him the pipe of peace Hear! the panther is calling for his mate; even so does the heart of Dar-dah- ne-leh call to Leh-on-et-tuh to make of his heart her lodgel"
 Then he told her storIes of his aation--the greatest of all peoples tlF Cherokces.