The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
~ INDIAN INVITATION.
Just Pictures en- nirrh nark. NUT tue,
said an That Was Necessary.


Talk about your engraved invitations
and your open faced suits. chuckled the
New Yorker as he toyed with his hqusur
at the Boradway restaurant, after having
told his companion about his mining triP
I had n queer invitation up north. writ
ten with a stick too. IL was an invite
from Mr.. and Mrs. HOwling Wolf. TO their
summer residence. The Birches.
-Id gone up north To get a little rest
and was in a canoe with an old trapper,
named Lagrange. when he suddenly
stopped padding and exclaimed. a
letter
The canoe swerved around under the
green Of fragrant cedar and the trapPer
standing mp. pulled piece Of pinky white
birch bark out 81 n split branch and
looked IL over carefully.
Howling Wolf max GRAND eenvo-
tation. He want to see you an me vito
queeck. the trapper said. squAtting down
on his knees and showing the boat on
the shore.
All right I says. well TO and So
him Tomorrow We padded up our
fork Of the river. and when we'd landed
! took look at the letter.
1T was just a lot Of pictures done
in the red indianberry juice. First came
n thing that looked like horse or a COW.
with its head twisted up and in mouth open.
The Indian really meant Il TO be picture
Of n wolf bowling. That picture meant
Howling Wolf
Then there was a lot Of four or Ave
4 shaped marks, with big bases and little
tops. and a very big in the middle. with
curis like a pigs tail drawn from the
top Of each X mark. This was q group
OF wigwams. with a big wigwam among
them. This meant. Chiefs wigwam in
the Indian village Together they meant
Howlng Wolf In in the Chiefs wiGwam
in the Indian village
Il couldn't make out the pigtail deco
ration over the rs. Lagrange told me
they meant smoke. that there were fires
burning. This Implied that the Indians
were all gathered in the village and that
q meal was being cooked.
That changed the complexion Of our
letter quite bit. IL meant now. Howling
Wolf. a Chief'-his sign was drawn large
at the top % the birchhark showing he
was a chiefs having a feast in the
chiefs wigwam in his -illaGe in which
part. :"
Then You had crested notepaper for
your letter. at least intariected the
stav NJ homa Nav YorLar ECO Ahead
! What came NEXT"
We'll the nex, mart ~ the latter mad
me going good and hard. There was pic
| tur,s ~ n .ort ~ half moon and fo,Ir liz
tie CIRCLES after IL No h wasn't a cock-
| tail glass ar a Dunch howl or !, s,,,n t,,reen
| and four plat~- Don't he "a Hinnant
| This was a formal invitation ahapl,ltely
\ corrac, In every detail mont make nun
Of society Affairs like that
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/ and Ola sgrange wa srookiug s,rr.s ~
| his n,rorio,,s tobacco and grtnnin~ n,
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/ bis ,o,,gh log cahin AZ Iast h.. b.l,,.ad me-
o,It The cr.scent arrangsmsnt Va the
nsvr moon and a.. Co.. -C,,,,d thing.
ms.rt So',r s,,ns T1,.s, v,,Io,Ss.d ,h, ~,
moon and meant .four s,ay. SSter The new
,noon
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