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Updated: May 20, 2025
You can always find things better than I can, so you must hunt it and take up my dirt," was Hannah Straight Tree's demand. "Tokee! How strange you talk!" exclaimed Cordelia Running Bird, in amazement. "The dormitory girls must ask for a new dustpan if they break theirs.
Toward sunset, she entered the Sioux camp amid great excitement, for some one had spied her afar off, and the boys and the dogs announced her coming. "Whoo, whoo! Weeko's Nakpa has come back with the twins! Whoo, whoo!" exclaimed the men. "Tokee! tokee!" cried the women.
Lips thin as a leaf, and eyes bright as stars in midwinter!" she exclaims, as she passes on the furry bundle to the other grandmother for her inspection. "Tokee! she is pretty enough to win a twinkle rom the evening star," remarks that smiling personage. "And what shall her name be? "Winona, the First-born, of course. That is hers by right of birth." "Still, it may not fit her.
Lips thin as a leaf, and eyes bright as stars in midwinter!" she exclaims, as she passes on the furry bundle to the other grandmother for her inspection. "Tokee! she is pretty enough to win a twinkle from the evening star," remarks that smiling personage. "And what shall her name be? "Winona, the First-born, of course. That is hers by right of birth." "Still, it may not fit her.
Tokee! there rings the half-hour bell till supper, and I am down here, and it is moonlight." Cordelia hastily replaced the best things in the bag and scampered home.
Toward sunset, she entered the Sioux camp amid great excitement, for some one had spied her afar off, and the boys and the dogs announced her coming. "Whoo, whoo! Weeko's Nakpa has come back with the twins! Whoo, whoo!" exclaimed the men. "Tokee! tokee!" cried the women. A sister to Weeko who was in the village came forward and released the children, as Nakpa gave a low whinny and stopped.
The reckless speech was repeated to the dormitory girls by Hannah Straight Tree, much to their displeasure. "The dormitory girls are shovel-feeted, and she wishes they could not walk one step, only lie in bed!" exclaimed the largest girl, sitting down on a straw-tick to discuss the matter. "Then we should be cripples, and, tokee! how many cripples there would be!"
Now she gets my sleigh-ride!" And Cordelia Running Bird threw herself back upon the pillow, giving vent to wild, resentful tears. When the tears had spent themselves the Indian girl raised her head and saw the little book on the other pillow. "Tokee! The white mother put it here. She always keeps it, and it means that I can look at it now." Cordelia unwound the ribbon, opening the little book.
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