Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-12

stream. Just to lie on a grassy hill and
watch a curley screaming above its
nest would have been bliss for this
lonely girl.
Runs Away From Convent
Instead she marched and learned
to read little and peeled potatoes
till one day. full of longing for her
home and the freedom so long denied
she ran away from the nuns, and with
the aid of friends came back to the
little log cabin by the water.
Now she was grown woman in sta
ture. as primitive people mature early
and her grace and dark beauty made
her much to be desired by the young
men. and the fact that her father had
many ponies and cattle did not lessen
the attraction. One day young white
man, horse buyer from st. Louis, met
the young girl and was greatly at
tracted by her dark eyes and rosy
cheeks. For days he hung about the
place seeking an opportunity to talk
to her, but Baptiste told him: my girl
is not for white men. No good could
ever come from such marriage. White
men get lonesome and go back to
their own women. You go now and
Angelique soon forget you"
She watched him go with a little
ache in her heart, but if she shed any
tears, no one ever knew it,
She learned to ride and tame the
wild horses because, half wild as she
was, she knew their spirit as she did
her own. One day young Isaac, the
Nez Perce breed, came over the hill
with the buffalo hunters He was tall
and strong and a fine horseman: he
had killed many buffalo and excelled
IN all the games of the young men,
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Isaac wanted to buy her. He offered
her father several ponies and many
buffalo hides.
Am I a Blackfeet that I sell nv
daughter?" scorned Baptiste, and the
girl herself pretended indifference till
one day she tried to ride a wild and
vicious horse. AS she mounted, the
enraged animal gave a few stiff bucks,
and squealing and grunting, took the
bit in his teeth and jerking the reins
from her hands with his wildly tossing
the flat.
Isaac to the Rescue
Young Isaac wasted no time in
mounting. with leap he was on his
flat saddle, mounted on a tall bay
after the girl, who chung to her horses
name. pale and frightened. On they
raced for mile or more till Isaac
gradually drew alongside and grasped
the bit of the winded horse and An
gelique tumbled to the ground. Isaac
dismounted and sternly taking her
arm to hide his own fear said, you
are my woman now, and you ride no
more horses like that, do you hear?'
She looked at him once and dropped
her eyes. He mounted the bay, gave
her his hand and she got up behind
him and rode back to her fathers
cabin.
With the dawn lney were away on
horseback to the mission, where Father
Bandini married them, an unnecessary
ceremony as they considered it, but
they wanted to please the priests who
had done SO much for them. Baptiste
gave feast and a dance, and Dave
Poison came from his cabin on the
east shore and fiddled for the we'd
dlng, and new cabin was built on
the shore.
The old woman turned her head
and closed her bleary eyes. Her claw
like hands reached for her pipe and
tobacco. Her shrill voice cracked with
age as she spoke "You write story
about Angelique," she whined, Eighty
years old I am, but I remember. lie
here on my bed and I see it all. feel
the wind on my face as I ride, and
sometimes I am girl again."