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Nothin' bar tyin' Slim Jim into the saddle, like the hoss- back Injuns does to papooses, could save him. "An' aside from nacheral awk'ardness an' a light an' fitful seat in a saddle, it looks like this Slim Jim has baleful effects on a bronco. To show you: One mornin' we ropes up for him a pony which has renown for its low sperits.
Late that evening our wagon-train arrived. Mrs. Weichel, the wounded woman, had been carefully attended by the surgeons, and we placed her in the ambulance. Gathering up the prisoners, squaws, and papooses, we set out for the South Platte River, eight miles distant, where we went into camp. Next morning, by order of General Carr, all the money found in the village was turned over to the adjutant.
As they landed from their canoe they saw several pickaninnies, for Seminole children are not called papooses like children in other tribes of Indians, watching them from behind trees and boats. The squaws whom they met were equally shy and kept their faces hidden. Ned spoke to several of them, but they gave no sign that they even heard him. "They don't like your looks," said Dick.
As I faced the congregation I also faced the papooses, to whom the indifferent backs of their mothers were presented; it seemed to me there was never a time when some papoose was not choking, but no matter how much excitement or discomfort was going on among the babies, not one squaw turned her head to look back at them.
She told Faith stories of the wild animals of the woods; of the traps she set along the streams to catch the martens and otters; and of a bear cub that the children of her village had tamed. But it had disappeared during the summer. "The papooses catch birds and feed them," she continued, "tame birds so they know their name, and come right to wigwam."
For months and months I've been racking my brains to think up a plan. If we could only hit upon something that would turn his thoughts back to natural history again I mean something big enough to get him really excited we might manage it. But how?" she shrugged her shoulders in disgust "How? when all he thinks of now is paving streets and teaching papooses that twice one are two!"
But when they came to the place where Crawford was to suffer, Captain Pipe threw off the mask of kindness; he made a speech to the forty warriors and seventy squaws and papooses met to torture him, and used all his eloquence to inflame their hate. The other Delaware chief, Captain Wingenund, had gone into his cabin, that he might not see Crawford's death.
"And the little papooses dig holes in the sand ... Vive le Capitaine John!..." I leaped into the lake, without even my gee-string on, and swam far out, singing.... Late that evening, Barton came to my tent ... very gently and sweetly ... he no longer called me John or Johnnie ... I was now Mr. Gregory. He asked me, if he rented the plot back from me, would I go in peace?
That was why even the squaws and papooses came up the river with the braves, all wondering if the stranger had brought gifts with him, all eager for their shares; for it had been said by the courier of the tribe that "Oshondonto," their name for the newcomer, was bringing mysterious loads of well-wrapped bales and skins.
They sat down in a ring and passed a pipe from one to another, and Frog-in- the-face laid down the law. Squaws were having too much liberty. If they were allowed to go hunting it wouldn't be long before they would want to take part in the councils of war, and then what would become of the papooses? Who would grind the corn and till the soil and do all the rest of the dirty work?
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