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Show WHITE MAN'S BURDEN. "There was a white man out in Montana," said Senator Carter, "who was called Steve Crow. He lived with the Indians for forty years, married mar-ried a squaw and raised) a family. Finally, his wife died, his children threw him out, and he drifted up to Seattle, where he married again. "After a tirrae he returned to Montana Mon-tana and said his second wife had secured a divorce from him. "'What happened, Steve?' askcd a friend. "'Why,' Steve replied, 'that there woman didn't know when she had a good thing. I married her and built a cabin out on the flats. It wasn't my land, but I lived there for a while. She didn't appreciate her advantages. Why, every morning I went out on the flats and gathered a bushel of clams, and all she had to do was to shuck 'cm and cook 'cm.'" |