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Show I INDIANS AND COMETS. L nllof Tliat the Ban Chases Stars and I Ult.j Thorn. ( Whon the. last comet was streaming j tho sky I was camping ono night In avanyon near tho foot of Cook's peak. Ip Mio party was an old nnd for nn fudfiu fairly Intelligent Ute, named am. Sam had beon attached to some valry troop at Port CumralngHasn bout, but his day of leaving the scrvlco elngieahcd ho attached himself to mo for a consideration says a wrltor Mhe St, Louis Post-DUpateh. HKilntlug to tho comet I asked Sam what ho could say In Its defenso from the standpoint of u Uto. Sam was, tin-iko tin-iko most Indians, r great talkor, and :ould ipi'Hk IhiglUJi vory tvell. Ho ivob ambitious to perfect himself In ho language, and readily solzed on very chimco for it talk. Indood, 1 locovcrcd him on ono or two occasions II alono and talking vigorously at n larh 111. i! a savogo Demosthenes. 'Tell a' nit that?" said Sam, point-aft point-aft towanl tho oomot. "Sam do It In heap oai y Tho sun U tho man uud Jo havo moon for (.quaw. Tho stars-fig stars-fig utnr and Htllo ttars nro nil their fhlldron. Tho win don't 1 Iko 'cm. If lio catchoa ono ho oats It. This makes llio stara heap 'frald, nnd when (ho o hna his sleep over and cornea out ho dtara run nnd hula. When tho sun Tucs stars go creep Into holes, ond tide. Hut tho moon la good. Sho ores her children tho stars and vhon tho ami sleeps uho comes out In ho sky, and tho ttars nro glad, and hoy como out of tho places they hid n, nnd forgot to bo 'frald nnd play. Hut whon tho sun wakes again they mi. llo la always after them and ho atches them some times. This ono," .-ontinucd Bum, again pointing to tho -omct, "tho sun cutch ono time, lie rot nway, though, but tho sun hit him imlhurt him. Thafit why ho bleod ). Now ho' heap scared und so keeps Us face ulw ays towurd the place where ' iho sun is sleoplng.'.ij ,, : r.uuuu tu lio a NurccM, "(parley ; Sawyer's play Is bound tobs t success." I )V1?. arc ,0" alifruiu about Itf" "Well, you m, Chorloyhas Just ds- Ided not to play tho leadim; rele." I liidj.'o. jtM'-WW --- ltMSJStlyJt'l T" |