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THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN
the spot once more and halting to scan the
water for his next rise.
This time the dive was much shorter; the
bird was losing wind; possibly the blunt ar-
row had hurt him. A half-dozen arrows "zip
ped" into the water about him, but not one
hit him. ;
The chase was becoming more and more
exciting. At each appearance of the gamey
loon, a yell and a rush would occur; the can
oes sped converging till it seemed that a half
dozen of thern must collide, but always the
adroit paddlers steered aside from destruc
tion. The spray from the frantic paddles
covered the crews v.ith water, but neither
bucks nor squaws gave heed to that.
The loon would come up now in front, then
back of them all; his dives became shorter
and shorter; he was evidently in distress;
some of the observers were touched with pity
and wished the bird might escape, but laugh
ing, shouting Indians gave no evidence of
any such feeling.
In all the chase the old man and his sinewy
squaw handled their canoe admirably. Kin
ally, in a perfect crowd of the scrambling red
skins, the nearly exhausted loon popped up
his head beside this canoe. By a quick clutch
at his neck the old squaw caught him.
A wild shout of triumph arose from the old '
man as his wife clung to the struggling, flop
ping captive. The whole crowd joined in his
shout and we on the land swelled the chorus,
while the braves appeared a bit crestfallen
that a woman should capture the bird.
Once ashore, the lucky squaw, knowing
that her feat would not secure her any defer
ence from the disappointed braves, left the
loon with her husband, and quietly, yet with
a certain proud air of 'victory, sought her
teepee.
The hunt was now the apparent theme of
loud talking by all who had gone out, and by
all Indians who had remained ashore. One
after another would lift up the great bird by
the neck and utter a loud, exultant "Wuhl"
At the last the old man took it to his teepee,
where it was skinned by one of the young
women, and the pelt set drying to sell to the
Hudson Bay Company. Ex. ,,
Hampton Institute Virginia celebrated
its 39th anniversary last month.
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1 GENERAL NEWS 1
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Joe Dillstrom is making several new
cuts for postal cards.
Mrs. Theisz was nine days and eight
nights traveling across the United States,
on account of delays and stop-overs.
How is the Mandolin and Guitar club
coming on? Aren't we going to have a
concert from them pretty soon?
Frank L'Heureux is greatly missed
by the eighth grade pupils and they all
hope that he will be back next year and
rejoin his class.
John McCush who had been confined
to the hospital for some time is now
back in his class room and resuming his
studies for his final examination.
Miss Miller kindly took sevejal girls
out in the country to pick strawberries
for themselves. They all enjoyed the
berry-picking very much.
Although the young people who went
to town to the lecture report a very
pleasant evening, those who stayed at
home- also enjoyed the evening. Our
old friend, Mr. Burdette, surprised us by
coming to chapel and giving us an in
teresting heart to heart talk. We espe
cially enjoyed the stories he told ua a
bout the faith of children in their Savior
Such talks cannot fail to make us better
and we hope to enjoy them often.
PattwBrqs.
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