The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-05-19
Advice Of Sitting Bull to Young
Braves With Too Much Ez-
thuslasm.
TRAP WAS SET FOR CROOK
= lians Gave the General Such q
aattls That He Was Forced to
Stop His Advance.

When you start in on anything, 30
through With q. Don't stop 10 the
middle ana &c, cold feet. aud don't
make a slip-ohod finish. Make a thor
ough job OF anything you undertake.
Isn't that right. Charging bear3
Mr. Hapssock paused 10 his lecture
70 a minor empioye aud glanced At the
e%minently respectable old Indian. the
chief red man Of the prairie show. the
New York Telegraph says The minor
empioye. who had been intrusted with
some small mission IN the city and
had fallen down most woefully.
grinned. ndgeted uneaslly ard waited
for Charging Bear to speak But the
old Cheyenne fount Of wisdom and
uncle 70 half the people Of the show,
only clicked the ashes "a a huge e.
gar. Mr. Hapstock resumed tne a..
tack.
Il send you uptown With an impog-
tant message. and because you don't
md him nrst crack you fail down You
don't ven hunt for him. ought 70
can you right here. stlIl. IN LEI Il 50
this time. but you Try 70 iet that lesson
soak into your sysiem. n you start
70 do a thing. do L up 10 the handle.
Am ! right Charging BearT
Charging Bear strengthened a bent
plume In his shadoTlng war bonnet
and then smlled a smile Of width and
wisenesa
As a rule said be. In perfect Eng
llsh. you are right. There ara times.
though. when things can b TOO well
done.
Way back IN 1876. I vas with 81.
ting Bull. Rain 10 the Face. Crazy
Horse and . lot OF other good fellows
re we're strolllng through the Yellow.
stone country. dodsins the troops or
lighting them One afternoon we
General Crooks command al.
saneing upon as. A quick council va
held Crazy Horse proposed % bury
he main body Of our warriors among
he bluffs and hills. forming 4 sort Of
horseshoe around a little valley. and
send about 500 young warriors
Crooks cavalry. Tho scheme
vas for these youngsters 70 make a
lice. warm fight Tor an hour or 90.
md then break back into confusion.
men would follow Into the
rap. and there would Be some hno
caip collecting.
The history books tell OF the fight
re- made. After the light had been on
half an hour. We found that
70 we're ahead Of the game Crooks
we're giving way. his whole force
ras coming up 20 aid the advance
uard. and Va wero whipping them a.
ist a they came. {
sayi' yelled 70 Crazy Horse.
no "a leading the charse. This Is
he best ever. Let's 80 ahead and /
lake q good job or Il,
Too good 70 BE- true. Crazy Horse
0wled back through tho smoke and
ust- You do what you uers told 10 !
B,
But all OF ~ young warriors M. q
ring that We we're only doing what q
as asked Of us-puttlng up a nne 9
tile fsht-kept on charging. The .
stories say that Crook vas 80 hard 9
.essed By the Indian attack that he a
ased his advance and camped upon p
field. quite correct. Il was late u
the afternoon before a cross or p
charge Of cavalry finally beat 81
on. and II the charge had been ten v
inutes late We would have had six O
mpanies OF troopers under foot c,
After that last mix.up. which was Z,
nd TO hand. lance against saber. We b
ew on to the ambush and waited for Il
0 troops to advance. Nothing do
Thoy we're 20 badly cut % that "a
" wanted no more lighting and Do pl
ely refused to associate with Us any ca
lger. In short, We had made too W
ID a nght. spoiled our elders plans. pl
q ruined our whole scheme Of battle N
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