Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-13
Little Bobbie' ;
Pa
By WILLIAM T. KIRK

w IFE, sed Pa to Ma last 1f,a a..
w you ever happen TO not5s H..
my feeturs are not unlike -.
feeturs Of an Indian?
No. never did, sed Ma L,.
! notised that yure ackshunz are +.
! those Of a Indian a CRATE marv 49,,
but I doant think yure face loozs H..
a Indians face.
Haven't you ever notised thai
cheek bones is a trife high & NV ~.
IS stern & hooked & my eyes pea--rs
sed Pa
Not at ALL sed Ma. Goodness E7.r.
yure eyes doaut look very peercfrs b. .
morning. Go & look at them In .4
glass;. Why, sed Ma, why are Won as5
ing me all these foolish questions,
What noshun is in yure he'd now
Well, sed Pa, I win tell you il r,.
* Bobbie promise not to take vHs-
tell you litely. ! Was toad this as-s-
noon by vary wunderful woman --s.
l lived on this erth five hundred vas~.
ago, & that at that time was a famor.
Indian chief in the wilds Of what is nov
Wisconsin. She toad me that r7.sf
my peepul sternly yet gently. q that !
had a positiv geenyus for warfare All
this & moar was toald me by this WIN
derful woman
& who is this wundeTful woman seq
Ma. l cud see that she wanted 'or "a
know moar.
She is a mistick that Just cain her.
fpl India sod pa A N ~
of mine was going to interview her K
he took me along, & she KEEP looking a.
me all the time she was talking 70 Oh.
newspaper man. After she had loosz.
at me a long time, Pa sed, she toa..
me what / have toad you & litte Bob
bic
How romantick, sed Ma. Just think
Bobbie. yure father used 10 be a Ia
nous Indian cheef
Lon, Long before g US guns had shsoth
father was seated at a camp FIRE
with a lot OF other old Indian rummIes.
smoaking a pipe q making fancy
speeches. l suppoas about that saiu
time thare was squaw that loved him
all she cud when he dident keep her
busy ChOpping COTdwoOd.
Not so, sed Pa. The mistick woman
7 have toald you about toad me that
wen ! was this famous cheef, five hun
dred ye6rs ago, I was maRV in Igva
with butiful Indian princess of another
tribe, & that the father Of the princess
wuddent give his daughter 20 me. han.
sum & powerful tho I was, sed Pa
The woman sed that I finally agreed 70
fife another sutton for her hand. s thar
| was killed by the sutton In this due
| guess my foot must have slipped I-
something. sed Pa. Anyhow, va.
killed & the yung princess felt so bad
when she knew that ! was ded that she
went & CrOaked herself & ueether o..
us was seen no moar as Indians
How deelteful, sed Ma Did this
mistiCk woman say anything ab0I.
yuTe present married state? She mite
have meushuned that thare was Dr.n-
cess waiting for You at hoam, watct ing
everything get cOald..
She did menshun you, Sed Pa She
sed that now, my second time on arta,
: am married to that saim Indian ur.a-
, cess, SO you must have lived five hum
| dred yeers ago too, Sed Pa.
YCl dOant tell me, sed Ma 7 d0ar-
. .,O1m to feel a bit calder now that you
menshun it. | doant take much stock
this having lived before, sed Ma
isent what we mite have been five aur-
dred yeers ago, it's what we are g1Ilg
TO maik out Of our ifes now But b
RELY did live five hundred yeers ae
& loved you, sed Ma, We ought 60 Trims
pritty well Of eeCh other by nov
Deerest luv, Ma sed can / have 'na'
new hat 7 was telling you about as.
mite?