The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1915-09-30
y Lost Cloud--Good Indian e
THE STORY or AN INDIAN
WHO HAD AHEART.
By Jay El. Eff


pertaining which ucorrgbe
many their
along valley which their world
their eamsthe reservation The only teachers he had known since
the when he had first been able climb yeang pintos
(meanng AGENT aud Big B
the teacher of the reservation school.
morning Of Lost Clouds nineteenth
the work Of atera crossed the irrigation ditch
Greek into the hills dawn Lost Cloud had
hungry hungy had been hungry
He known that ration day still
what ration day when there hungry
Beef what he had waned good fresh beef
and fresh beef he would have regardless of how where
He had also known that there plenty of beef the
h beef that belonged the paleace ranchers big rich
who could big for the lease of the
had thought would surely lone that
sayd from the herd and seemingly broken Leg So
had ope along bseny applying his quir the while
the had continuous revolution of or of
tall all Indian a-he had comtempat
the good going from that proposed beef and
the going do the brother ard sister Lost Clouds he had
left in the cabin by the river.
capricious goddess
His lone shot, his borrowed thirythiy
brought brought
from his cabin the divide The had
been willing listen Lost Clouds would call
voley calculations consisting chiefly mo abes
ded other diaectc features expanatonsbut had requested
horse and his procedure leading
mile the divide down into Goose Creek and
the where the would hold counsel with
the Great Mi. and then pronounce judgement.
Cloud had contemplated enjoying the fruits Of his escapade
but had thought of the penalty His foreers had
enjoying of their and had
atty merely beore only
there was the great
wooping down hinder and doing the things
were his D do, through herediy.
past the story Lost Cloud
Lost Cloud that have tell Anyone else could have
much have had much bel hem but in all probability
who would have done
wards did do-hat is the real story.
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They along ranger captive captives
hunched forward with hands tightly the
die hon while the attached the hair hackamore
the danged loosely the logged along He
show how willing do whatever the requested of
divide the But they
the the head of Goose Creek thenwe
pony could if it a ring gtal"
rangers entirely cap.
tve gzzed Indians
lightly the pomme while his big bukskn
peror position outfit
range beef killing WE'LL
watching stock this his watchunes perhaps
sure outfit would different opinion
and find that he had his usefulness
they seemed to intimate. after all.
it" all can't pull off O. r OF
kiin's when OF mans around; what" he called.
"Ub-siva all he gruned reply
useless talk who refused talk back they rode
silence knob North Fork down pines
The Indians pony life they draw;
ribs and jerk the hakamore
With wild flourish of tail and cunchng of
unhod hoofs off down the trail The Indian looked back
buckskn forward while the the sirrup
and then the the buckn stumbled and rider and beast
went down.
Indian galoped down the creek bottom still
rideress hillside
rang still lay where he had fallen.
pace headed the
creek shadows of evening had
the TALL sentinel the rim OF the divides level threw their
the sdehs He the
divide where he dmouned
throwing himself down ground and his chin
hands, the south where the nowcapped peaks of the
"Um- No Of paeface take-um Mia-wsa. We
sleep quick his pony
adious of thirty foot rope I'm Me guess no"
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