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Updated: May 19, 2025
He knew his boss was thinking of his own white squaw and the pretty blue eyes of the pappoose which made the father forget every trouble and concern when he gazed down into them. Oh, yes, Julyman understood. He understood pretty well every mood of his boss. And who should understand them if he did not? Men on the trail together learn to read each other like a book.
Out of the storm's first onset we rushed unasked into the hut of an Indian family, and surprised a pair of squaws and a six-months' pappoose squatting on a dirty and rain-pooled floor in almost total darkness.
The face of the Indian flushed and he protested: "Deerfoot would be only a pappoose in the hands of my brother." "P'raps, but you'd never be in his hands. I've studied your build and quickness, and the chap that can whip a Blackfoot war chief without using a weapon is the best fellow in the world to let alone I beg pardon, Deerfoot. I'll drop it.
In the towed canoe two fat and stolid squaws and a pappoose were huddled, and beside them God be praised! food. A piece of buffalo on its way to town, and in the end compartment of the boat tallow and bear's grease lay revealed by two blows of the tomahawk.
Then they marched forward boldly, arousing several sleeping dogs, who began to bark loudly. A cry went up from one of the squaws who had a pappoose in her arms, and at this half a dozen squaws and two old men showed themselves. "Where is Mamuliekala, the Great Water Bear?" asked White Buffalo sternly. "He has gone on a journey," answered one of the old men, his eyes shifting uneasily as he spoke.
"Well, cut my diamonds if it ain't a kid!" drawled he. "Injun pappoose, or I'm an elk! Young feller, where'd you come from, hey? What in mischief do you think you're doin' here?" The tiny "Injun" made no reply. Tintoretto tried some puppy addresses.
Burleigh says he's in a position that enables him to know so much more about the character and habits of the young officers." "Surely he can say nothing against Mr. Dean!" exclaimed Pappoose, looking up with quick indignation in her brown eyes. "No one knows how good and generous he has been to Jessie and his mother."
"It was that galop my first at West Point that I danced with Cadet Captain Dean," said Pappoose, looking blithely up into his steadfast eyes. "You've no idea what a proud girl I was!" They were at the upper end of the parade at the moment.
Peering over the shoulders of one of the squaws, from its perch on her toil-bowed back, was a wee pappoose, its beady little black eyes gleaming, its tiny face expressive of emotions that in later years it would speedily learn to suppress, wonderment and interest. A thinly-clad girl of five or six clung to the mother with one hand and clutched her little blanket with the other.
She was only the step-mother of Na-tee-kah and her brother, and had a pappoose of her own as part of her burden, but she took her full share of the family pride when her husband drew himself grimly up and shut off the strong temptation to "whoop." "Young brave," he said to her with great calmness. "Great chief some day. All like father. Same. Go steal pony pretty soon."
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