Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1912-05-30

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word is law; mother has a senuiBs
Navajo"
q got a little bow'narruh wnze
Santa Claus bringed me-" put In Jim
my.
I'VE can s hatchets for toma
hawks" continued the little girl
Come on. Frances: let US go home
and get our things and come back
here to dress up. Run, Jimmy. get
things! You. too. Billy" she
commanded.
The children ran breathlessly to
their homes nearby and collected the
different articles necessary to trans
form them into ~presentable Indians.
They soon returned. Jimmy dump
ing his load over the fence and tum-
bling after; and the happy quartetts
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 we're in a dilemma till the re-
sourceful Jimmy came to the rescue.
wait a minute" he cried, I'll 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 a 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 filed his head full of his aunt's
turkey feathers, leaving them to stick
out awkwardly 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
blanket around him and was viewing,
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, afte.
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 a purple velvet border and a vel
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 a bright
red blanket. carrying his little bow
and arrow.
I'm going to be the Injun chief,
he boosted.
"I'm going to be a Iniun chief, too
parroted Frances.
"Chief, nothing!" he snsered, "yol
all time trying to be a Injun chief
You bout the pompousest little cir
they is. You can't be a chief nohow
you got to be a squash, Injun ladie
r. name squashes; me an Billy's tn,
chiefs. I'm name old Setting Bull
hi-self."
"You can't be named Bull, Jim
N.Y." reproved Lima, at isn't gentee
to say bull before people"
Eyes, l am too" he continued. set
ting Bulls the biggest chief they l
and Pm going to be name him"
well l am not going to play then,
said Lima primly, my mother want
me to be genteel. and bull is no
genteel."
81 tell you what, Jimmy" proposes
Frances, you be name Setting Cow
Cow is genteel cause folks mil
EN-"
NAV, | amt going to be name
no cow. neither" retorted the littl
Indian, you all time trying to 'suad
somebody to be name Setting Cow.
HE can't be name a cow,"-Bill
now entered the discussion-"'c aus
he amt no girl. Why don't you b
name 'Settin' Steer? Is steer ger
teel, Lina?" he a~nxiously inquired.
YES, he can be named 'Sittin
Steer" she granted. Jimmy agreein
to the compromise. peace was ono
more restored.
Frances and Lima got to be tn
squashes-" he began.
"It isn't 'squashes.' it is 'squaws,'
corrected Lima.
Yes. it's squashes too" ~persiste
Jimmy, "'cause it's in the Bible an
Miss Cecilia 'splained 1t to me an
she's bout the high-steppinges
'splainer they is. Me and Billy is tn
Chiefs" he shouted, capering arounc
"and you and Frances is the squashe
and got to have papooses strop' t
your back"
"Bennie Dick can be a papoose,
suggested Billy.
"Tm not going to be a Injun squas
If / got to have a niger papoos
strapped to my back" cried an IL
dignant Frances. "You can strap hir
to your own back, Billy"
"But | amt no SQUASH" objecte
that little Indian.
I'VE can have our dolls for papooI
es," said Lima, going. to the swim
where the dolls had been left. Bill
pulled a piece Of string from his pool
ct and the babies were safely strapps
to their mothers backs. With stated
tread, headed by Sitting Steer, th
4 nht1dron marnhad hack and fnrf