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After undergoing the preliminaries of an Indian toilet, young Kerr had moccasins given to him, and a blanket to wear a costume perhaps more convenient than becoming and he entered on a round of duties new and strange. He was not, after a time, unkindly treated by Peewash and his squaw.
In winter the lodge can be entirely closed; and when a fire is kindled in the centre, the smoke escaping at a small hole where the poles join, the snugness is complete. At the entrance of one of these lodges I watched a squaw and her child prepare a meal. When the fuel was collected, a fat puppy, playing with the child, was seized by the squaw, and knocked on the throat not head with a stick.
"My poor son! my poor son!" moaned Madame. "She has no heart, that child! She is not human. Pani, it was not a child the squaw dropped in your arms, it was " "Hush! hush!" cried Pani, rising and looking fierce as if she might attack Madame. "Do not utter it. She was made a Christian child in the church.
Breakfast over and Shadrach put to the shafts, he would take his way up the river. But first there must be laid upon Squaw Charley a final and a solemn charge. The prayer finished, he put out a hand and touched the Indian. Then he opened his tear-blurred eyes and looked at him, his face softening and working. The Squaw did not budge. His palms were still pressed tight. He blinked at the wagon-bed.
"One day two day three day I have made run, so swift like eagle. Then I rope her and make broke for ride." She was a beauty. Graceful, proud and lawless. "Good blood, like Indian chief," said Running Deer with pride in this gift from the Sioux. "But white squaw she throw um, mebbe. Rub like fawn " and he stroked her curved neck. There was no "mebbe" about throw um white squaw.
He was a good hunter, and there was no one to bring meat to his squaw and children. And we were bitter, and we said 'That which for the white men is well, is for us not well. And this be true. There be many white men and fat, but their ways have made us few and lean. "Came the third white man, with great wealth of all manner of wonderful foods and things.
The tepees stand, but not a squaw, nor a dog is left." "Were there any canoes in sight along the shore?" "Only one, broken beyond repair." "Then, as I read the story, the tribe fled down the stream, either to join the others on the Illinois, or the whites at the fort. They were evidently not attacked, but had news of the coming of the Iroquois, and escaped without waiting to give battle.
Casey's manner therefore was extremely preoccupied when he led a suddenly limping William up the gulch and past a stone hut with a patched tepee alongside it. A lean squaw stood erect before the tepee and regarded him fixedly from under the shade of a mahogany-colored hand, and when Casey came closer she stooped and ducked out of sight like a prairie dog diving into its burrow.
The Indian girl stood with her dark eyes fixed on Anne, and the squaw talked rapidly for a few moments, evidently giving the girl information or directions; then she lifted the smaller of the two baskets, and fastened its deerskin strap over Nakanit's shoulders. The roll of blankets and the other basket she carried herself.
But the squaw threw a flint and the flint was poison, and my hands were on her throat, and the squaw fell into the ashes, and when Little Fellow arose she was dead. Did she not slay La Robe Noire? Did she not slay the white man before Monsieur's eyes? Did she not bind the white woman? Did she not drag me over the ground like a dead stag?
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