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He bought him for ten gallons of whiskey, and promised to take him to his parents the next time the tribe travelled in that direction, because, he said, their little pappoose had liked them very much. "We remember her very well," said Mr. Wharton. "Her name was Wik-a-nee." "That not name" replied William. "Wik-a-nee mean little small thing."
It would imply some mission of importance surely, he thought, to induce the woman to expose the child to a tempest like this; and indeed the pappoose, buffeted by the wind, the rain full in his face, lifted up his voice again in a protest so loud and vehement that his mother was enabled to see the great white owl, whose business it is to remove troublesome little Cherokees from the sphere of worry of their elders, already winging his way hither.
Folsom's ranch seemed beleaguered by the gaunt, half-famished wolves of the upland prairies. "Look to your sights, now, men! Down into the cellar, Pappoose!" exclaimed Folsom, kindling with fierce excitement. "I've been the friend of all that tribe for thirty years, but when they break faith with me and mine that ends it!
He cannot pause to clear his vision, for it comes at the crisis of the fight, and an instant halting means ignominious defeat, while to persevere, when he has only the partial use of his sight, makes his disadvantage hardly the less. While the chief was savagely blinking, in order to enable him to see, the crowning taunt of all sounded in his ears: "The Blackfoot cries like a pappoose.
"Why, Long Hair!" exclaimed Tom, greatly startled; "what is the matter?" The Indian glanced warily about, then laid his ear to the ground, listening intently, and arose quickly, saying, "Indian come. Much fight. Kill white man; kill white squaw; kill pappoose." "What of my father and mother?" inquired Tom, excitedly. "Have they been murdered?"
"The Indian word has a meaning, I presume?" "Translated into English, it would be 'the lost pappoose." The eyebrows of the Easterner lifted; but he made no comment. "You have been with my uncle, with Mr. Landor, I mean, long?" "Since I can remember almost." The search within the checkered blouse ended. The inquisitor produced a pipe and lit it. It took three matches.
She told him his mother was a white woman, with eyes blue as the sky, and that she was very good to her little pappoose, when she lost her way on the prairie. She wanted her husband to buy him, that they might carry him back to his mother.
In Hal's room the fevered sufferer awoke from his stupor and, demanding his rifle, struggled to rise from the bed, and there John Folsom found Pappoose, pale and determined, bending over her weakened brother and holding him down almost as she could have overpowered a child. Lifting his son in his strong arms, he bore him to the cellar and laid him upon a couch of buffalo robes.
"Merciful Providence! and has this great secret been known to you, too, Nick!" "He no secret know all about him. Wyandotté dere. See Major Meredit' shot. He good chief nebber flog nebber strike Injin. Nick know fader, know moder know squaw, when pappoose." "And why have you chosen this particular moment to tell me all this?
But Kenneth MacVintie, remembering his ill-starred generosity, flushed to the eyebrows, so little it became his record as a soldier, he thought, that he should be captured and stand in danger of his life by reason of the unmilitary performance of feeding a babbling pappoose. Attusah, however, could but love him for it; he loved the soldier for his kind heart, he said.
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