Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-07-09

the pesky redskins can come forth from
their caves on the plains without fear
any more of the rife OF Roy, the hed
Wolf. Mrs Conyers comes up aud
thanks me an John Tom without the
usual extremities you always look for In
a woman she says just enough, in
way to convince, and there is no incl
dental music by the orchestra. l made
a few nliterate acquisitions upon the
art of conversation. at which the lady
smiles friendly, as II she had known
me a week. And then Mr.. Little Bear
adorns the atmosphere with the various
ldioms into which education can frac-
ture the wind OF speech. / could see
the kids mother didn't quite place John
Tom: but il seemed she was apprised
Of his dialects. and she played up to his
lead IN the scie-ne Of making three
words do the work Of one.
That kid introduced Us. with some
footnotes and explanations that made
things palmer than a week Of rhetoric
He danced around, and punched US IN
the back. and tried TO climb John Tom
leg This is John Tom, mamma says
be. He's a indian lie sells medicine In
{. red wagon ] shot him, but he wash
wild The other ones Jef. Hes faklr
TOO Come on and see the camp where
we live won't you, mamma /!
1t IS plain 10 see that the life OF the
woman is IN that boy. She has got him
again where her arms can gather mimi.
aad that's enough. She's ready to DO any
thing to please him. She hesitates the
eighth OF a second and takes anoih her LOOK
o. these men. imagine she says 10 her
self about John Tom, Seems TO De
gentleman. II his hair don't curl And
Mr. Peters she dlsposes OF as follows /:
10 ladies' man. but man who knows
lady.
SO we all rambled down to the camp
as neighborly az coming from WAKE
And there she inspects the wagon ana
mats the place with her hand where the
kid used to sleep. and dabs around her
eyeW mixers with her handkerchlet' Ahu
Professor Blnkly gives Us "Trovatore on
one string Of the banjo ana Is aoout 10
slide off into Hamlet's mcnolOgue when
one Of the horseS gets tangled IN ms
rope and he must 20 look after him. ana
saws something about fooled again
w hen IL got dark me and John
Tom walked tack up TO the Corn TX
change Hotel, and the four Of Us had
supper there ! think the trouble started
at that supper. for then was when Mr.
Little Bear made an Intellectual balloon
ascension. ] held on TO the tablecloth.
and listened 10 him soar, That redman,
ii could Judge. had the gift Of informa
tion He took language, and did with It
all a Roman can do with macaront His
vocal remarks was all embroidered over
with the most scholarly verbs and pre-
fixes And his syliables was smooth. and
fitted nicely to the joints of his idea
/ thought I'd heard him talk before. but
/ hadn't And It wasn't the size Of his
words hut the way they come; and
twasnt his subjects, for he's spoke Of
common things like cathedrals and foot
ball and poems and catarrh and souls
and freight rates and sculpture. Mrs
Conyers understood his accents, and the
elegant sounds went back and forth be-
tween EN-. And now and then jefferson
D. Peters would intervene a few shop
worn, senseless words to have the butter
passed or another leg of the chicken.
Yes, John Tom Little Bear appeared
to be inveigled some in his bosom about
that Mrs ConyeTs. She was of the kind
that pleases She had the good looks
and more, III tell you You take one of
these cloak models in a big store. They
strike you as being on the impersoual
system. They are adapted for the eye.
What they run to Is inches around and
com plexion, and the art of tanning the
delusIon that the sealskin would look
just as well on the lady with the warts
and the pocketboOk Now. II one Of them
models was of duty, and you took II, and
II would say Charlie when you pressed
II, and sit up at the table, why. then
YOU would have something similar to
Mrs. Conyers. | could see how John
Tom could resist any inclination to hate
that white sQuaw.
The lady and the kid stayed at the
hotel. In the morning, they say, they
will start for home Me and Little Bear
left at O'Clock, and sold Indiana Rem
edy on the courthouse square till g. He
leIves me and the Professor to dri,e
down to camp, while he stays up town. l
am not enamored with that plan for 1t
shows John Tom is uneasy In his COM
posures, and that leads to frewater and
sometimes to the green corn dance and
costs Not often does Chief Wish Heap
Dough get busy with the frewater, but