Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1911-08-03
A Little Indian Boy.


Once upon a time in an Indian
village little Indian boy was born.
He was very brown and not at all
pretty. His name was Sunshine.
As soon as he was born his grand
mother made him q little Indian cradle,
in which he Was put and carried on
his mothers back.
If Sunshine had been a little girl
his grandmother would have placed a
bit of moss between his heels, and
would have bound his toes together
SO That they would turn in like a
doves
All of the squaws were made pig
con -toed," in this way.
The Indians called their babies
papooses.
As soon as Sunshine was seven
years old he had little culver full OF
arrows and a little bow of his own.
When he shot his first bird or squir-
rel all the neighboring chiefs were in
vited to feast with Sunshine and his
father, Big Cloud He grew up to be
d great warrior like his father.-F'anny
Brown, age IL, Norwich.
livery little Indian child is given
q name when it is baby, or papoose.
The person who does the naming Is
usually a native medicine man or some
such functionary. When he begins his
task he lets the first thought that
cOIHeS TO Ills nina OF lae HFSl tuIuS
that he sees suggest the name.
One saw a man having q struggle
with a horse, in which the animal
had the better of it. The child got the
name Man-Afraid- Of his Horse. An
other, looking out of a Wigwam, saw
clouds Redeemed by the setting sun,
and named the child Red Cloud. An
|sother, it is probable, put his head out
of the door of the wigwam, felt some
drops of rain on his face, and named
the child Rain-in theFace.
These names. however, lose the
pleasing sound and some of the mean
ing which they carry in the native
tongue when translated into English.
UNCLE JEDI
Hungry Bees.
"Therv omother, what do you think of
that" asked Harold as he put his
pail of berries down on the table near
said we would not get pint but you
see we have managed to fill our pails-'
Now won't you please make US some
huck1eberry pies %
The funniest thing happened to us
out in the field. We chose a large tree
to eat our lunch under and when we
were hungry we spread out q couple
of paper napkins and ate our lunches
off of them. We had some left and
thought we would go back and finish
it later; and when we went back a LOT
Of bees were eating UP the crumbs that
lay on the ground.
We tried to drive the bees away;
but the harder we tried the more bees
seemed to come; and after fighting
them for q while we decided that Athev
must be pretty hungry, SO we left
them there and came away.-Little
Boy Blue.
The Tame Squirrels.
A boy once found a squirrel as he
was walking along in the woods, and
brought it home
His mother told him to make a house
for it and put it in the laundry so that
it could be watched.
The boy did so and the squirrel soon
had three little baby squirrels. The
squirrels never went outside of the
, yard for two or three months.
One day the little boy saw /. the
mother of the little squirrels looking
for something and he thought it must
be for the little ones. He went to their
house, but he could not find them.
There was a lane about hundred
yards away from the house. He took
the squirrel in his arms and went
there In the bushes he began to look
for them. There were a few bushes
together and there he found the squir-
rels. Two were dead and the other
almost dead.
The little squirrel soon got well. and
was tanned so that it would eat out OF
anyone's hand
It liked peanuts the best of any