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Quail mother-bird singing to her nest! I love that music. "Say, you play at Potlatch, frighten away the hawks; mother-birds sing. No devil dance. Say, I have been good; no harm old wah-wah. Will you will you play play that tin-tin at Potlatch under the big moon?" A great thought had taken possession of the young Indian's mind, and a great plan one worthy of a leader of a peace congress.
I can hardly write, for a little wah-wah, the most delightful of apes, is hanging with one long, lean arm round my throat, while with its disengaged hand it keeps taking my pen, dipping it in the ink, and scrawling over my letter. It is the most winsome of creatures, but if I were to oppose it there is no knowing what it might do, so I will take another pen. The same is true of an elephant.
The young Indian was silent for a time. He at last said, slowly: "But me know who will." "Do what, Benjamin?" "Make her suffer punish." "Who?" "I know a bad Indian who will. He say so." "You must not let him. You are son of a chief." "I will try. I no wah-wah now." At noon Benjamin was light-hearted, and led the sports and games.
At six months I could pipe out "How d'ye," and one day I attracted every one's attention by saying "Tea, tea, tea" quite plainly. Even after my illness I remembered one of the words I had learned in these early months. It was the word "water," and I continued to make some sound for that word after all other speech was lost. I ceased making the sound "wah-wah" only when I learned to spell the word.
Mann saw at once the strange turn that the young Indian's mind had taken. He was puzzled again. "No, Benjamin; I will teach you what to do." "Teach me how to club her? You are good! Boston tilicum, we will be brothers you and I. She wah-wah, but she is no good." "That is C." "Aha! She heap wah-wah, but she no good."
The latter, although three or four times as large, seemed entirely at his mercy and was submissive and frightened, even when his ears were pulled by the wah-wah. During my travels in the jungle of Borneo, few were the days in which I was not summoned to rise by the call of the wah-wah, well-nigh as reliable as an alarm clock.
She have no right. All right after Potlatch. I wah-wah; she wah-wah no more." "Be good yourself, Benjamin. Be kind to her; make her kind. You do right." The young Indian hesitated, then answered: "I do as you say. You are friend. I'll do as I feel when the music play. I try. So you say." The cloud passed. The teacher paid the Indian boy special attention that morning.
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