The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-03-21

| sat down on the grass IN MISS MINER
vas yard. First the paint boxes were
! opened and generously shared with
Billy. as with their handkerchiefs they
spread thick layers of rouge over their
charming. bright. mischievous little
faces.
The feather decoration was next in
order.
How we goin' to make these feath-
ers stick?" asked Billy.
They were in a dilemma till the re-
sourceful Jimmy came to the rescue.
Wait a minute" he cried, "Ill be
back fore you can say Jack Robin
SON."
He rolled over the fence and was
| back in a few minutes, gleefully hold
ing up bottle.
This muc-lage II make 'em stick"
he painted, almost out of breath.
Lima assumed charge OF the head
| dresses. She took Billy first, rubbed
the mucilage well into his sunny curls.
and filled his head full Of his aunt's
turkey feathers, leaving them to stick
| out awkwardIy in all directions and
at all angles. Jimmy and Frances.
after robbing their mothers busters.
were similarly decorated. and last.
Lima, herself. was tastefully arrayed
! by the combined efforts of the other
| three.
AT last all were in readiness.
Billy, regardless of consequences.
had pinned his aunt's newest grey
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with satisfied admiration. its long
length trailing on the grass behind
him; Lima had her mothers treasured
| Navajo blanket draped around her
graceful little figure: Frances, after
pulling the covers off of several beds
and finding nothing to suit her fanci-
full taste, had snatched a gorgeous
silk afghan from the leather couch
in the library 1t was an expensive
affair of intricate pattern, delicate
stitches. and beautiful embroidery
with purple velvet border and a yell
| low satin lining. She had dragged
one corner OF it through the mud pud-
die and torn a big rent in another
place. Jimmy was glorious in bright
red blanket. carrying his little bow
and arrow.
Pm going to be the Injun Chief"
he boosted.
I'M going to be Injun chief. too"
parroted Frances.
Chief nothing!" he sneered, you
all time trying to be Injun chief.
You bout the pompousest little girl
| they is. You can't be a chief nohow:
you got to be a squash, lniun ladies
chiefs. I'm name old Setting Bull,
hi-self."
You can't be named Bull, Jim
my" reproved Lima. lit isn't genteei
to say bull before people,"
Yes, am too" he continued. Set
ting Bulls the biggest chief they is
and I'm going to be name him."
We'll, am not going to play then, "
said Lima primly, my mother wants
me TO be genteel, and bull is not
genteel."
| IL tell you what, Jimmy" proposed
Frances. you be name Setting Cow
Cow is genteel cause folks milk
EN-
Nav. ] amt going to be name
no COW. neither" retorted the little
Indian, you all time trying to 'suade
somebody TO be name Setting Cow"
"IIe can't be name COW, Billy
now entered the discussion" cause
he amt no girl. Why don't you be
name 'Settin' Steer? Is steer gen.
teel, Lina?" he anxiously inquired.
Yes. he can be named Sitting
TO the compromise. peace waa once
more restored.
Frances and Lima got to be the
squashes---" he began.
1T isn't squashes. it is 'squaws.'
corrected Lima.
Yes. It's squashes too" persisted
Jimmy, "'cause it's in the Bible and
Miss Cecilia 'splained 1t to me and
she's bout the high-steppingest
'splainer they is. Me and Billy is the
Chiefs" he shouted. capering around,
land you and Frances is the squashes
and got to have papooses strop' to
your back
Bonnie Dick can be a papoose,"
suggested Billy.
I'm not going to be a Injun squash
if l got 10 have a niger papoose
strapped to my back" cried an In
dignant Frances. You can strap him
to your own back, Billy"
But ! amt no squash" objected
| that little Indian.
I'VE can have our dolls for papoos-
es." said Lima, going. to the swing
where the dolls had been left. Billy
pulled a piece of string from his peck
ct and the babies were safely strapped
to their mothers backs. With stately
tread. headed by Sitting Steer, the
children marched back and forth
across the lawn in Indian file
SO absorbed were they in playing
Indian that they forgot the flight OF
time until their chief suddenly
stopped. all his brave valor gone as
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