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thoroughly use lets.—Edinburgh Journal.PR A HUE SKETCHES.A party of thieving Crow Indians came upon an encampment of trappers, and requested permission to rest and refresh themselves with the white men. The vagabond Crows had neither horses nor arms, while the trappers had both and the poor Indians were admitted into the camp without hesitation. The trappers were old and wary followers of their trade, and up to all the subtile tricks and pilfering propensities of thoir visitors. It was their boost to be superior as well in cunning ns in bravery to any of the reel stragglers who occasionally crossed them, and on this visitation they held the unarmed and ill provided Crows to bo objects fitter far for mirth and ridicule than capable of the slightest harm or mischief. In short, they looked for amusement from the crows, and with the utmost freedom invited them into the camp.There were ten trappers and just eleven Crows, so that the white men were in minority one. The Indians might have been genuino emigrants from Down East by the interesting occupation every man was engaged in, for there was not one of them without a knife and a stick, and (hoy came in among the white hunters, whittling their bits of sticks down ‘ to tho little end of nothing5 with the same indomitable gravity
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Southport Telegraph
South Port, Wisconsin, US
Tue, Nov 02, 1841
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