Show USE quaint PHRASES INDIAN BOYS WRITE HUMOROUS YET PATHETIC LaT LETTERS one Com complained plaine d that mules injured hla his religion low wages and hard work has embittered life of another the struggles of indian hoya boys tn in the tha different schools with the english language aro are revealed in a batch of bf let in the possession 1 ot of A 8 wyly superintendent of indian schools in oklahoma an indian awon bov on a farm wrote 1 I am not going to use those mule teams any longer than I 1 can help they injure my religion I 1 have to eckold them and use bad words before I 1 can get them going a on such speed as I 1 want them these facts are true to be wit by god CW 11 1 just juet received your good oarse barea and your picture wrote another 1 I can feel that it Is purifying and enriching the letter and the picture acting gently on iny my liver and framer alla me met I 1 am in love with the truth another indian boy placed on a fat m wrote a letter of objection to that kind of labor and a gentle complaint as to the wages lie he rec received eivid my air honored school defio 01 fat father and mhd friend he wrote to superintendent Superintend an t wyly now I 1 am going to write you this day and inform you how 1 like ft ray place first of all matters I 1 would say earnestly I 1 dont like it I 1 think the trouble Is I 1 am too big for him because he be told me right fight before my iny facci lie he said he rather have a small email boy so BO he be can give him 6 or 7 a month for ilia labor this was when I 1 6 rat came to this place iid and eier ever since he ado had same opinion another thing he cant give ene higher wages ho he do it for atly any inabit man aai yot the tightwad tight wad wants WO me to work on two farms and yet he only give me 10 a month krait gracious ious life A woman can get mo rehi 10 a month keeping ku house I 1 would krould rather be a housekeeper than work on two farms at 10 ft month an indian boy from the snake set seb flament tries to tell the superintendent he be to Is tired of school and w would gather bather go 90 back to the tepee 13 hetts not the first boy who has played alc alck to got get away from school but no schoolboy ever voiced it in such quaint language my dear friend school father 4 he be wrote rote particularly I 1 am endeavoring to assume a splendid opportunity to say just concisely to you on this beau beail di morning orning I 1 suppose you recognize that I 1 am sick in my I 1 aega dee mIam iani well again no mora I 1 want YOU to let me go home as soon as this month if I 1 stay here so long ions I 1 cant be y apil maybe so 0 11 |