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After lunch they held a grand pow-wow at the home of Will, to which the two girls were admitted; for it had been deemed best that all the schools in both Centerville and Newtonport should be closed for a few days, in order to make a few needed repairs after the storm.
Now the table was put aside, benches arranged, and the signal for the pow-wow, given on the drum, when all who could find space to sit or stand crowded in. Now he has come, and has eaten and drank with us. His way being paved by this brief introduction, the Bishop addressed them, saying that he thanked them for the feast they had prepared, and the very kind welcome they had given to him.
All this is brewed while the dance is goin' on, an' by breakfast time next mornin', there bein' a full quorum of Republican war chiefs on hand, they pulls a pow-wow an' instructs their deputies to round up the lynchers. This is done, barrin' a few that's flitted, the boys bein' caught unawares. Well, things begun lookin' serious to 'em, an' as a last resort they decided to fall back on the truth.
"Wha-at's wa-anted?" came Reade's hail, still from a distance. "Hurry up!" yelled Greg. "Hustle. Big doings here!" "Have you found a boat?" came Tom's query. "No! But -hustle! Run!" Greg was alive with curiosity. He could not wait. If the box were to be opened only after a pow-wow, then the sooner the council were held the sooner the mystery of the box's contents would be solved.
But he had to get his, some time, an' somebody's meditations would hev to be disturbed. This hyar varmint, gents, what is now an unopposed candidate for a funeral pow-wow, was a little too previous with his gun agin my younger brother. It's a case of plain justice, gents; my brother was without weapons, and he pointing to the figure on the floor, 'he knew it.
"Well, what do they do? nothing like the pow-wow at the Crepuscular, I hope. Are strangers admitted?" "What do they do? They try to show that the world isn't so bad as it seems. They'll let you in all right." "Because I'm not so bad as I seem? Thanks. They don't have a dinner, I hope." "No dinner." "But they give you a bite later on, don't they? I was almost famished at the Simplicity.
"Gentlemen, the business of the club will be attended to, and then we will discuss the question, 'Shall girls go to our colleges? The Secretary will now read the report of the last meeting." Clearing his throat, Gus read the following brief and elegant report: "Club met, December 18th, at the house of G. Burton, Esq. Subject: 'Is summer or winter best fun? A lively pow-wow. About evenly divided.
The minister sprung a long sermon on the effects of strong drink on the young and the Emporia Wasp you know they did call it the Bee, but the guy that bought it from the Bee people renamed it the Wasp, because he got stung worse than any bee could sting the Emporia Wasp came out with a long editorial about the profligate rich and the Attic Debating Society had a big pow-wow in the basement of the church on the subject, 'Be it Resolved, That more people are killed by strong drink than by hanging. All this had such a moral effect on the young that the soda fountain didn't sell a claret phosphate for three weeks after.
The idea of an Indian Tyl Eulenspiegel going about the country making mischief recalls a great part of the adventures of Hiawatha or Manobozho; in fact, it could not fail to suggest itself to a believer in Shamanism, or pow-wow, according to which evil spirits and men like them are continually teasing mankind, out of sheer malice.
"So he can, first rate. He and I had a great pow-wow, didn't we, Nicholas?" Nicholas smiled absently, and fixed his one eye on the bacon that Mac was cutting on the deal box into such delicate slices. "He'll talk all right," said the Boy, "when he's had some breakfast." Mac had finished the cutting, and now put the frying-pan on an open hole in the little stove. "Cook him?" inquired Nicholas.
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