Show denof bunted en of the by captain G elliott nightingale copyright WHEN SITTING BULL REALLY SAT DOWN ro iro I VIOLATE an age old sioux I 1 law and to do so in the presence of a few hundred sioux warriors whose weapons still glistened with the white blood of the custer massacre to do such an unheard of thing and get away alive such was the distinction that came rather suddenly to one of the smallest men ever seen in the ranks of the mounted the untouchables of india had little on the old time indian medicine men when it came to keeping fellow humans at a distance and one of the most famous of untouchables among american indians was sitting bull medicine man and mad magician of the hard fighting sioux after the frightful butchery at little big horn the sioux knew that if they stayed where they were they would soon have thousands of american soldiers on their necks men who would wreak the fullest measure of revenge for the terrific slaughter of custers brave troops it was a case of fight or fly so after much debate and wrangling the sioux decided to fly to canada to manitoba and seek sanctuary under the british flag until the excitement over the custer affair had died down six thousand sioux and a few hundred nez perces forces took refuge on canadian soil and the northwest mounted police were a bit curious about the newcomers things went along quietly until some of the braves grew restless and staged a horse stealing foray this was mistake number one mistake number two was that they had been foolish enough to steal some of the best horses from the northwest mounted police and among these was inspector allens aliens favorite mount this was as allen alien put it a bit too thick so with two men he returned to the sioux and demanded that all the stolen horses be at once brought to him some of the stolen horses were led up to the men of the mounted then allen alien saw his own horse and its rider was sitting bull himself giving the sign of friendship inspector allen alien head and shoulders shorter than any sioux brave around him and probably halt half the size of sitting bull pointed to the black mare and said my horse you must give it back to me my horse screamed sitting bull at this hundreds of sioux warriors sensing trouble closed in on an the quarreling pair allen alien stood his ground however again he par keyed with sitting bull and again received a flood of abuse and insolence and a threat of sudden death it was then that inspector allen alien violated a sioux law as old as the sioux the law that decreed sudden death to anyone offering or committing violence upon the sacred personage of a tribal medicine man bracing himself and reaching upward inspector allen alien caught firm hold of sitting bull yanked him out of the saddle and landed him squarely on his sacred sit down As a tremendous and deafening uproar broke out and several braves made dangerous passes at allen alien the latter vaulted swiftly into his saddle inspector allen alien sat at stiff attention for a minute or two then nudged his horse and guided it deftly through the pack of howling indians fifteen minutes minute s later with all but a fe few w of the stolen horses herded for the trip back to quarters the inspector and his two men rode quietly out of the sioux encampment camp ment allen alien carried with him the distinction of being the only white man ever to manhandle man handle the great and sacred sitting bull and live to teu tell about it |