Show HEROIC TREATMENT how two squads squaws cored a white man 01 fever and ague after a week or ten days the fever somewhat abated says a writer in forest and stream and peter taking my double rifle by ment and half a dozen hard biscuit ay way of grub gave notice of two days absence and buckling his blanket about him went off up the trail late in the evening of the second day while I 1 was lying on the bearskin with swimming brain anil a fevered brow he came back but not alone two strong athletic squads squaws each toting a large pack were his companions he introduced them as alc blackbird squads squaws and lie gal booty young squaw great medicine the elder of the two was about as tough leathery looking a specimen of aboriginal ugliness as I 1 haac aver fallen in with and making due allowances for difference in age the daughter was the perfect model of her they both cast their loads unceremoniously aside and the elder proceeded at once to business watching me closely as she did so she rolled a large handful of leaves in her hand until partially pulverized then passing them over to the younger squaw who soon made a pint of very bitter tea from them which I 1 was told to drink I 1 managed to gulp it down hot and bitter as it was and the old squaw then seized me without ceremony packed me snugly in bearskin bear skin and blankets after which she and her daughter wrapping their own blankets around them lay down on either side of me crowding me in a manner more close than pleasant davids medicine which answered the purpose so well was not a squaw or if she were that she was young and good looking my leathery belles answered however to help getup get up a copious perspiration which was just and when I 1 awoke irom the first sound re freshing sleep I 1 had enjoyed for weeks ait was with a cool clear head and limbs free from pain with the rise of the sun the confound ed ague began to threaten me and mrs blackbird with the help of her interesting daughter proceeded to take measures for expelling itin a manner quite as novel and original as her treatment of id ve t she undid a bundle of dirty blue cloth and took lerom several bundles of neatly bound r had heard some hard stories of the ager and smelled a pretty extensive mice immediately dia tely but on the whole concluded io go through so r suffered them to divest me of my clothing and seize me firmly by the wrists and made no objection even when mrs blackbird began to ap ply the gently to the bare skin gradually the blows increased in rapidity and severity old peter who had stood by as a spectator at first stepped forward and seized a wrist firmly in each hand so suddenly had no time to object and the whipping immediately became energetic and general each of the squads squaws with a switch in each hand vied with the other in rapidity of hitting and as the slug gish torpid blood strove to dash with answering speed through the tingling veins the pain became unendurable I 1 had resolved to bear all ahat was asked ofine in hope of a cure but the torture was too severe and I 1 ordered them to desist trying at he same tune to wrench myself loose from peter they only laughed and laid on the harder I 1 became mad with pain and went in on my muscle biting and butting furi bously at old peter and giving the leath ery females ungallant kicks about the ribs and abdomen a proceeding that made them laugh all the more and brought down the switches with increased vigor J entreated and cursed by turns tried bribery and flattery begged for a resting spell and threatened death to the party of conspirators immediately I 1 got loose but all in vain they flogged me for a time that seemed an age and only let me off when I 1 was too exhausted to stand alone then L was again enveloped in skins and blankets fyhen strange ah it may seem I 1 almost immediately fell into a deep slumber from which I 1 did not awake until evening when I 1 did awake it was with a general sense of soreness allover the outer man but where was the ague gone completely cured as wella athe fever s |