The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-03-14
The Butt Of the
Camp
BY SADIE OLCOTT

| IlduSlLS uDOuL llllIllub camp III tHN
far west was IN Indian girl whose
lame was so unpronounceable that she
ical Indian maiden of song AMI story,
but a real daughter of the forest,
which means that she was not beau
tiful, not over clean, aud her hair
hung down. coarse and straight on
her shoulders. At least it would have
hung straight if 1t had been cOmhcd.
Sal was not popular with the camp
ers. but she could he made useful for
Il very small expenditure Men who
had an accumulation of unwashed
dishes could hire her for Il few cents,
an old piece of ribbon or some tobacco
to do the job so that they could start
anew with their tableware and use 1t
all over again. \ drudge like that Is
always sure to get all the cutting that
springs from i'll temper, and Sal had
10 one to divide it with. II any one
lost anything she was accused of hay
ing taken 1t and i'll treated until 1t
was found. which was often in the
possession Of the owner. The Indian
is proEerably revengeful, but Sal SEEM
ed unusually patient under the rough
treatment she received. All wondered
why she didn't stay with her people,
who were settled on their reservation
on the other side of the divide, but
despite her ungainlmeSS Sal seemed to
realize that whites were superior to
redskins. and She would rather be the
butt among the former than stand
high among the latter
One day Sal got in the way of Tom
Barton when he was stamping his way
through the camp in very bad humor.
lie gave her Il bat Oh the side of her
head that sent her to the ground. A
young and COmeIy man called Ohio
sam. lie having come from the highly
civilized state of that name, saw the
transaction and was 50 incensed at Il
man striking Il woman that he walked
up to Barton and batted him as he had
batted Sal. Barton was too cOwardly
to fight, so lie took it out in jawing.
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