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The overwhelming smile on the countenance of the chieftain made it attractive, for it was free from the disfigurement of hate. "Yes, he is an Osage, with his wife and little one. He may not be a pleasant neighbor, but he would not dare to live away from his tribe, if he was as cruel as the Shawanoes or Hurons. Some of the settlers would shoot him and his squaw and papoose."
In accordance with the plans outlined for the year 1820 it was proposed to open a road between Council Bluff and the new post on the upper Mississippi. To survey the route Captain Stephen Watts Kearny led a party which consisted of four other officers, fifteen soldiers, four servants, an Indian guide and his wife and papoose, eight mules, and seven horses.
On through the night rumbled and roared the train, the whistle sounding mournfully in the darkness as the engineer blew it at the crossings. Ted and Janet were sleeping soundly, Janet dreaming she had a new doll, dressed like an Indian papoose, or baby, while Ted dreamed he was on a wild pony that wanted to roll over and over instead of galloping straight on.
As she turned her sorrel, Papoose, into the corral she noticed several four-year-old colts in the pasture lot. As she returned to the house Harris appeared in the door. "Grub-pile," he announced. They sat down to a meal of broiled steak, mashed potatoes, hot biscuits, coffee and raspberry jam.
I've known her since she was a dirty-faced papoose, and I never knew her to lie or steal. She wasn't in on that robbery I'll bank on that, and she wouldn't go off with a thief. It isn't like Annie."
I asked him if his young men intended to kill me, and he answered, that was what they had proposed to do, but he would see what they had to say. The Indians then talked among themselves for a few minutes, and upon the conclusion of the consultation, old Rain-in-the-Face turned to me and gave me to understand that as I was yet a "papoose," or a very young man, they would not take my life.
On the other side of the wagon stood typical figures, the French-Canadian trapper, the Alaska woman, bearing totem poles on her back, the American of Latin descent on his horse, bearing a standard, a German, an Italian, an American of English descent, a squaw with a papoose, and an Indian chief on his pony. The wagon was modelled on top of the arch.
So his master carried him away, and I never saw him afterward, till I saw him at Piscataqua in Portsmouth. That night they bade me go out of the wigwam again. My mistress's papoose was sick, and it died that night, and there was one benefit in it that there was more room.
I was looking over at that woman with something on her back that resembles a child." "Yes, a papoose. That is their way of carrying them." "Poor mother! She must get very weary." They threaded their way carefully to the citadel. The guard nodded and they passed. An Indian woman was bringing in a basket of vegetables and there was a savory smell of roasting meat. "Now you are safe," he said.
To one side of it is fastened a white doeskin bag which is trimmed with beautiful fringes and beadwork. Can this be a baby's cradle? Nokomis, the grandmother, opens the bag, which is laced down the middle with colored strings. She makes a bed of soft moss upon the hard board and lays the papoose very straight in its little frame.
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