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"Your mother hasn't thought it well for you to see these sights." "Then it has happened, often?" "I have buried seventeen," said Mr. Raymond. That afternoon he showed Taffy their graves. "I know the names of all but two. The bodies have marks about them tattooed, you know and that helps. And I write to their relatives or friends and restore whatever small property may be found on them.
And he asks me why I shouldn't go to jail, and if tattooing ain't crazy, and I says give me three minutes and I prove my case. And I begin with the Romans, and how they was the brightest people we knew, and how they went in for tattooing, and how Columbus was tattooed, and all the sailors that was bright enough to discover America was tattooed, also. Then I say, what if Charlie Ross was tattooed?
By this means the dead body lies in a vault, nothing touching him. After a time the body is taken up, the bones cleaned, and deposited in an ossuary called the Quiogozon." Dr Fordyce Grinnell, physician to the Wichita Agency, Indian Territory, furnishes the following description of the burial ceremonies of the Wichita Indians, who call themselves. "Kitty-la- tats" or those of the tattooed eyelids.
Abusing his authority, he made himself feared, but, at the same time, detested by his people. He brought upon himself the censure of the chief attendants of his father, whom he provoked by all sorts of humiliations and insults. If he saw any one of either sex remarkable for good looks, he had them tattooed in a frightful manner for his good pleasure.
The commissioner continued, laughing: "'I can prove it to you. His right arm is tattooed. "'The sleeve was rolled up. It was true. The inspector added, with bad taste: "'You can trust us for the other proofs. "And they led my maid away!
And that's what made me ask about marks just now the false-toother was tattooed on the arms and chest a crown and foul anchor with M.V. above." "I've seen that," said Pyecroft quickly. "It was so." "But if he was all charcoal-like?" said Pritchard, shuddering. "You know how writing shows up white on a burned letter? Well, it was like that, you see.
As I approached what looked like a mere bundle of linen thrown against the gnarled trunk of the tree, I recognized the large, dark eyes, the tattooed stars, and the long, regular features of that semi-wild girl who had so captivated my senses.
Two months after the priest of Marcapata had dismissed with his benediction the party of confident and enthusiastic explorers, he received again his strayed flock, but this time in rags, armed with ammunitionless guns and one poor knife, wasted by hunger, baked by the sun, and tattooed like Polynesians by the briers and insects. The good man could not repress a tear.
I reckon he thought he'd keep the thing up till he tired them people out, so they'd thin out, and him and the duke could break loose and get away. Anyway, he set there, and pretty soon he begun to smile, and says: "Mf! It's a VERY tough question, AIN'T it! YES, sir, I k'n tell you what's tattooed on his breast.
A crackling fire of resinous pine boughs burned brightly upon the ground in the centre, illuminating redly the framework of black, glossy poles, and flickering fitfully over the dingy skins of the roof and the swarthy tattooed faces of the women who squatted around.
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