Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-23
TJTTLE FANNY = & E5khE0re Story

to have it doctored that is, tied up
with some salve.
"In due time the wound healed,
though the part of the finger was gone.
1.-The redmen were in the habit of
making raids in the settlement, at
times behaving very well, at others
they would steal anything they could
lay their hands upon, or if in bad
humor often killing the settlers-man,
woman or child, none too old or too
young, winding up by setting fire to
their homes and barns and destroying
their fields of grain, leaving desolatiOn
in their path, with the settlers fleeing
from their wrath.
con one occasion several Indians
bent on mischief made a raid, and
seeing Fanny a little distance from
her home, picked the child up, and
despite her feeble outcries, carried her
away with them.
when she was missed, she could not
be traced. Her father and mother
greved for their little girl, but failed
to find her
Years rolled by, when an Indian
trader, who had been in the business
a long while, and got to understand
the Indian language, happened to go
to Wilkesbarre, the flourshing town
of the Wyoming settlement. He had
dams in what was then the western
part of the United States, and was
telling a group of men that he had
become acquainted with in the valley,
what he had seen among the redskins.
cone thing he said, I saw
squaw, the wife of one of their great
chiefs, who had not the features of
their race, and told her so. She said
she was the child of white parents,
stolen by Indians when she was little,
but she did not know who her people
were or where they had lived.s She
held up one hand and showed where
she had lost part of finger
mot many minutes passed until the
story reached the ears of Mr. Slocum,
who went to call upon the trader and
learned from him where to find the
tribe, as he felt sure the wife of the
chief was his lost child. He sent his
two sons out west. The brother who
had unintentionally caused the acct
dent was one of the sons to go after
Fanny and bring her home.
"They found her decked out in the
native dress of the tribe, proud of the
chief, her husband and her children.
The brothers urged her to go home
with them, but she steadily refused,
and to their disappointment they had to
go home without her.
1.-THE family at home were not salts
fed with the result of their trip, and
after while, to please Fanny's moth
er, the father and one of his sons made
the journey together.
with the chiefs consent, she came
back with them, only staying a short
ime. as she could not accustom her
self to their mode of life. She was
anxious to get back to her own family
and the wild, free life she had led,
knowing none other for so any years"
HANNAH IANTHE JOHNSON.
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for a present she answered quickly,
THE poor, sick rabbit"
"And why do you want him when
there are so many richer gifts?" asked
the queen.
80 1 can try to make him well and
happy"
Then the queen of the fairies kissed
the little girl, ordering the rabbit and
it's cage to be placed in the chariot with
her as she started for home, adding:
Whenever you want anything stroke
the rabbit down."
Little Gretchen laughed, for she was
not thinking of gifts, and no sooner
was she out of sight of the queen than
she opened the cake door and let the
rabbit go.
1t was six months before she saw
bunny again, and then she met her
in the wood with four tiny white rab
bits of her own.
The way Gretchen knew it was the
same one it jumped into her arms and
rubbed it's pink nose against her cheek,
and then, to be ve:y sure, she rubbed
bunny down with a wish, and behold!
a pretty pair of SHOES lay at her feet.
The shoes were too new to match the
seedy garments she wore, and she
stroked it again, wishing for an entire
new suit of clothes, and they came as
quickly. as the shoes.
After that Gretchen went to the
woods every day to see if she could
find bunny and her babies, and did so
for nine days in sucC ession, after which
the little things disappeared somewhere
for the winter, but not until Gretchen
had wished for 9nd obtained new
home and purse cf gold to put away
enough for her and her family to live