Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-13
Little Bobbie's
Pa
By WILLIAM F. KIRK

VI TIFE. sed Pa to Ma last mite. did
w you ever happen to motifs +bz-
my feeturs are not unlike trs
feeturs of an Indian?
No, I never did, sed Ma. l bav,
notised that yure ackshuns are ILL.,
those Of a Indian a CRATE many time.
but l doant think yure face looks Ike
a Indians face.
Haven't YOU ever notised that M.
cheek bones is a trife high & my noza
is stern & hooked & my eyes peercirg
sed Pa
Not at all, sed Ma. Goodness know.
yure eyes doant look very PIERCING rhfs
morning. Go & look at them in trs
g ass. Why, sed Ma, why are you ask
ing me all these foolish questions
What noshun is In yure he'd now?
Well, sed Pa, l will tell you II you
& Bobbie promise not to take what
tell you Htely. l Vas toad this after
noon by a vary wunderfu woman that
lived on this erth FIVE hundred years
ago, & that at that time was famous
Indian chief in the wilds of what is now
Wisconsin. She toad me that l ruled
my peepul sternly, yet gently, & that 7
had a positiv geenyus for warfare. An
this & moar was toald me by this wun.
derful woman.
& who is this wunderful woman? sed
Ma l cud see that she wanted for to
know moar.
She is a mistick that just cain here
from India, sed Pa. A newspaper friend
Of mine was going to interview her &
NO q. -f1a L..
me all the time she was talking to the
newspaper man. After she had looked
at me long time, Pa sed, she toad
me what l have toad you & littel Bob
bic
How romantick, sed Ma. Just think
Bobbie, yure father used to be a ia
nous Indian cheef.
Long before US gulls had sheeth
gowns, sed Ma, yure beloved
father was seated at camp fire
smoking a pipe & making fancy
speeches. -suppoas about that saira
time thaTe was squaw that loved him
all she cud when he dident keep her
busy chOpping cordwoOd.
Not so, sed Pa. The mistick woman
! have toald you about toald me that
wen l was this famous cheef five hun
dred yeers ago, l. was madly in love
with butiful Indian princess of another
tribe, 4 that the father of the princess
wuddent give his daughter to me. han
sum q powerful tho I was, sed IA.
The woman sed that l finally agreed t5
fife another sutton for her hand, a. thar
] was killed by the sutton in this due
| guess my foot must have slipped or
something. sed Pa Anyhow, ! was
killed, Il the yurg princess felt so bad
when she knew. that L-was ded that She
went & crOaked herself & neether Of
US was seen no mOar as Indians.
How deeltteful, sed Ma. Did this
mistCk woman say anything about
yure present married state? She mite
have menshuned that thare was a pru-
cess waiting for you at hoam, watching
everything get coald.
she did menShun you, Sed Pa. She
sed that now, my second time on erth
| am married 10 that saim Indian prn.
cess, so you must have lived five hun
dred yeerS ago too, sed Pa.
You doant tell me, sed Ma. ] dOani
seem to feel a bit calder now that you
menshun it. I doant take much stock in
this having lived before, sed Ma Il
isent what we mite have been FIVE hun.
dred yeeTs ago, it's what we are going
to maik out of our lies now But if
RELY did live five hundred yeers ago,
& loved you, sed Ma, we ought to think
pritty well Of eeCh other by now
Deerest luv, Ma sed. can l have that
new hat l was telling you about las;
mite?