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Updated: May 2, 2025
Her words fell from her lips like crackling embers, and her inflection ran up like the small end of a switch. I understood her voice better than the things she was saying. I was certain we had made her very impatient with us. Judéwin heard enough of the words to realize all too late that she had taught us the wrong reply. "Oh, poor Thowin!" she gasped, as she put both hands over her ears.
Just then I heard Thowin's tremulous answer, "No." With an angry exclamation, the woman gave her a hard spanking. Then she stopped to say something. Judéwin said it was this: "Are you going to obey my word the next time?" Thowin answered again with the only word at her command, "No." This time the woman meant her blows to smart, for the poor frightened girl shrieked at the top of her voice.
In the midst of the whipping the blows ceased abruptly, and the woman asked another question: "Are you going to fall in the snow again?" Thowin gave her bad passwood another trial. We heard her say feebly, "No! No!" With this the woman hid away her half-worn slipper, and led the child out, stroking her black shorn head.
Then, after a tiny pause, say, 'No." The rest of the way we practiced upon the little word "no." As it happened, Thowin was summoned to judgment first. The door shut behind her with a click. Judéwin and I stood silently listening at the keyhole. The paleface woman talked in very severe tones.
Among us were three young braves, two tall girls, and we three little ones, Judéwin, Thowin, and I. We had been very impatient to start on our journey to the Red Apple Country, which, we were told, lay a little beyond the great circular horizon of the Western prairie. Under a sky of rosy apples we dreamt of roaming as freely and happily as we had chased the cloud shadows on the Dakota plains.
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