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Show Indian HoBBKMANsiirp. All modern mod-ern equestrianism dwindles to nothingness noth-ingness when compared to that exhibited ex-hibited by the ShoahoHes and Crows. Horse and rider seem grown together; and, no matter whether it is up or down an anjle of 45, or across the level plain, tbe average warrior is happiest and most graceful when his pony runs fastest and plunges wildest. The rider pays little attention to rein or bit, but, by swaying his body to and fro quickly and eoaily, turns his animal in any denired direction. In parades around camp in richest war-attire, war-attire, their appearance is most striking, strik-ing, and bo lull of the extravagant that we cannot but think ot some gorgeous panorama. Their appearance appear-ance is no less savagely aboriginal than it is original. This also often -leads us to think that an Indian is an Indian the world over, and that their very allies take as supreme a delight in mangling the body of a victim as the veriest Sioux that ever committed a massacre. They are all jolly souls, too; but most of their humor has a Ivery ghastly turn. It generally , hinges on triumph over an enemy, : the utter destruction of that enemy, and the capture of his property. Tney are merely a species of human j bloodhound, taught to run down tbe I Sioux inflteadofthe white. But, at jany rate, their aid is invaluable to Isuch warfare as this, proving they j will do what their strongest instinct, their most ardent desire, and not a j little courage, impel them to do. 1 |