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la,l-'8,*r.Many Ilravo Feathers Takes a LongRide.“ Kahnveeschetookeehewup, will youu ritie a fine horse once? ”ryItThe Cree chief looked at the handsome black mare the c hief factor was leading to-I* ward him; then he called one of his braves.inrer.psnato“ Bring my painted buffalo-robe and my bow and feathered arrows,” he said.He mounted and rode back some way along the trail which stretched over uu-dulating prairie and on far to the south, where the buffalo fattened numberless on the rich grass. He would “ run ” the mare rc as though lie was running buffalo; he j would show these white men how Manyillr Brave Feathers hunted !He turned and gave her her head. On he came like the hawk, shooting his arrows at tlie little poplars in the bind's alonga* ! the trail as he rode. A crowd had assetu-1h\oreclle%*riivSl-4.J-e* iiirbled to see the run; part were his own people, the others the staff of the Company at ' i old Fort Ellice.He was riding very fast. As he nearedthe stockade he tried to pull the mare in. *1 j But she declined to be pulled in; she was^ just getting nicely going.“Ay-ay-yah!” yelled the spectators, giving the war-whoop as he shot past, and lie kept on and circled the fort.Now a had thought came into his head; he would run away with the mare !11 The chief factor’s face did not entirely * dissemble the feeling of chargriu with 11 which he beheld his favorite beast vanish I* j over a slope in the south under ttie sailing b buffalo-skin. Then lie went to his quarters. e i The features of the other on-lookers wore a big general smile as he disappeared. The genial sun smiled broadly too, in the summer sky; in fact, everything seemed smiting—except the chief factor.Well if that ain’t a good uni” re-1‘ ! marked the clerk to the rest of the stall as 11 they sauntered back.Many Brave Feathers passed the night 1 ! at Moose Mountain. Moose Mountain is - only seventy-five miles from Fort Ellice,1 but then it was afternoon when lie sturted.Next day he arrived at a camp of his own 1 tribe and Assiniboins on Broken Shell Creek in the buffalo country.» ! All that fall and winter he staid out on e the plains, running buffalo with the stolen.J j horse, though he never lent her to any one t i except his sweetheart, who used to ride her when they moved camp. In the spring, when the grass was green, the camp, with1 j its store of robes and cured meat, journeyed1 toward Fort Ellice. Many Brave Feathers ! ordered one of his men to catch him three* horses out of the bund. He came to the fort riding the mare and leading the three other horses, and asked for the chief factor.• i He hud hud the mure seven moons, but she 1 had been well cared for and was fat.“Ah-ha, * Mistahuse,’ you speak true.! The mare is very fast,” lie said, as he put the lines of the four horses into the chief factor’s hand.“ Blamed if I wouldn’t like some at-origiual Augustus to borrow my cay use for six mouths on the same terms !” exclaimed the clerk. He thoughtthe old man had the best of it after all.—Harper’s Weekly.
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Mount Pleasant Daily News
Mount Pleasant, Iowa, US
Fri, Aug 02, 1895
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