Show MARRIED AND KNOW IT new indian agent got into predicament through ignorance Igno ranc of a native custom on the old rosebud indian reservation in south dakota they still laugh over the peculiar predicament into which a new indian agent once got himself the tha agent an unqualified tenderfoot was inspecting an indian school noticing that as soon as ag he entered the room every girl present brought her hair forward over her face he asked the teacher to tell them to throw it back so go that ho he might see BOB their faces but this they ther refused to do until after much urging one girl did finally uncover her face ace after school was over the agent wondered at the strange actions of 0 the girl who had uncovered her face sho she followed him to lila his house entered after him and get act about getting his dinner As he spoke no sioux and she no english he could get no explanation plana tf 0 a front from her ri finally nallY to his big relief the teacher red rode up shaking with laughter he asked the agent how he liked his new wife then the latter understood what hot he had done in certain tribes of the sioux indiana all a man needs need do in order to got get a wife la Is to induce a girl to uncover her face the agent had proposed in the usual way and been accepted in vain did the agent plead that he ha already had a wife in the east cast thero there was waa only one ona way to get out mt of it it cost at him the equivalent of fourteen ponies nies to persuade the indian father to take her back again |